When America Fell, Someone Had to Write It Down
What if the center doesn’t hold?
What if the dream rots from the roots?
What if the last hope of a nation isn’t a general or a billionaire… but a half-mad scribe hiding in the wreckage, still telling the truth?
This is not your average dystopia.
This is America after the mask slips, the light
When America Fell, Someone Had to Write It Down
What if the center doesn’t hold?
What if the dream rots from the roots?
What if the last hope of a nation isn’t a general or a billionaire… but a half-mad scribe hiding in the wreckage, still telling the truth?
This is not your average dystopia.
This is America after the mask slips, the lights go out, and the tribes come for what’s left.
From the ashes of democracy rise the Margin Men—wandering chroniclers, truth-scrapers, memory thieves—writing in blood and whisper, hoping someone survives long enough to read it.
It’s dirty. It’s prophetic. It’s now.
Growing Up Feral in the Land of the Midnight Sun
Before the world softened, we were out there—half-wild, half-broken, learning to survive in the cold teeth of Alaska. This is brotherhood, bruises, and coming-of-age with frost in your lungs and fire in your gut. A true story from the last frontier, told without apology.
Coming Soon: 1 December 2025
Tales From The Dauntless
Two years. One ship. A haze-gray ghost drifting through typhoons, backroom deals, and unspoken missions. These are the sea stories they don’t tell at reunions—rescues, riots, pirates, and the kind of truth only a sailor can carry. The ocean doesn’t forget. Neither do I.
Coming Soon: 1 September 2026
From the throne rooms of collapsing empires to the blood-soaked backwoods of Missouri...the opium dens of the Bahamas to the flamingo-dotted marshes of the Camargue...the Blockade Runners of the deep seas to the secret corridors of royal courts and the Civil War's shadow battlefield...
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Bloodlines. Betrayal. Legacy fired in black powder.
The Last Cavalier launches a brutal and sweeping saga—from the royal courts of Europe to the killing fields of Civil War America. Franco Lacroix isn’t just caught in history—he’s the spark that reignites it.
War remembers its own.
Before he was a soldier, he was a ghost.
Torn between empires and memory, Adhemar Lacroix—secret lover to a queen, pawn in a royal scandal, father to a child stolen by power—a forgotten weapon buried beneath Madrid.
Escaping a world he helped build, Adhemar joins the French Foreign Legion and becomes the sole survivor of the infamous stand at Camerone, and vanishes into the Mexican badlands with a rifle in one hand and vengeance in the other.
The road to redemption is paved with bloodshed—and for Adhemar Lacroix, that road leads straight through Texas.
Redemption rides a stolen horse.
A young outlaw, already hunted, already haunted. Franco’s descent is as brutal as his legend—through opium, blood, and Bushwhacker fire. This is the ride that burns the man and reveals the myth.
The world will remember the name Franco Loco. Whether it forgives him… is another matter.
“Every fire’s got a name, Franco. And one day, it’s gonna know yours." —Samuel
In the marshlands of the Camargue, the legend still lingers—of Saint George and the dragon, of good men and monsters, and of the thin line between the two.
Franco returns to the Camargue—older, sober, and carved by war. The place he once called home now belongs to his uncle, Murin Lacroix, whose grip stretches farther than law, and deeper than memory.
But something older is waiting in the reeds. Something born of betrayal, vengeance, and a name that should have died long ago.
The final battle isn’t about who lives or dies.
It’s about who the story remembers.
The Dragon is real.
And this time, Saint George isn’t coming.
The truth doesn’t live in textbooks. It lives in the bones of forgotten men, in burned letters, in blood-stained ledgers buried under the war-torn soil of a divided nation.
Here you’ll find the real history behind The Last Cavalier—from blockade runners and whiskey rebels to secret orders and vanished soldiers. What lies beneath the red clay might just rewrite everything you thought you knew about the Civil War.
Jack Ledger writes historical fiction like it was carved into musket stock.
Raised and running across the broken landscapes of postwar Germany, Alaska, the Far East Pacific Rim, and the American frontier, he blends memory, myth, and war into stories too sharp for the history books.
This isn’t nostalgia. It’s resurrection.
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