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Hey, and hello to new subscribers and regular readers. This will be a shorter missive, which may be a good thing!If you clicked the free-to-read prequel to the Spectral Detective Series, called Into Darkness, I hope you are enjoying the story.

King in the Dark : Part One—Duty Calls

I’ve pushed the button on publishing the first part of King in the Dark, at just over 60 thousand words. While it is a self-contained story, it marks a halfway point in Arthur Raphael King's first adventure.

King in the Dark : Part One—Duty Calls

At the end of the Second World War, Captain Arthur King leads a covert strike deep inside Nazi territory—a mission that unravels in ways no training could prepare him for. Injured and evacuated to England, King wakes in a military hospital with his sight gone… yet something else stirring behind the darkness.

As doctors search for answers, King begins to sense things no one will believe: emotional echoes, hidden motives, glimpses of something ancient threaded through the world around him. Haunted by what he experienced in Germany and driven by the instincts that once made him an exceptional intelligence officer, he starts piecing together patterns others overlook.

But recovery brings more questions than answers. Someone in the hospital hides dangerous secrets. Shadows seem to move with intent. And the forces that marked him on the night of the mission are not finished with him.

King in the Dark blends wartime intrigue with an eerie, slow-building mystery as Arthur King confronts the possibility that the greatest threats are not the ones he can see—but the ones he now cannot escape.

Perfect for readers who enjoy historical thrillers with a touch of the uncanny, rich atmosphere, and a protagonist whose greatest weapon—and greatest burden—may be the gift he never asked for.

Hard-boiled noir meets subtle supernatural horror in the explosive debut of the Spectral Detective Series: a blind war hero who traded his eyes for the ability to see the truth, whether the world is ready for it or not.