Jack Ledger

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  • Author
  • Where Legends Begin
  • The Ledger Dispatches
  • The Last Cavalier
  • The Ballad of Franco Loco
  • The Legionnaire
  • Dragon of the Camargue
  • Beneath The Red Clay
  • Meet the Writer
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    • Author
    • Where Legends Begin
    • The Ledger Dispatches
    • The Last Cavalier
    • The Ballad of Franco Loco
    • The Legionnaire
    • Dragon of the Camargue
    • Beneath The Red Clay
    • Meet the Writer

Jack Ledger

Jack LedgerJack LedgerJack Ledger
  • Author
  • Where Legends Begin
  • The Ledger Dispatches
  • The Last Cavalier
  • The Ballad of Franco Loco
  • The Legionnaire
  • Dragon of the Camargue
  • Beneath The Red Clay
  • Meet the Writer

Bold Stories, True Grit, and a Timeless Voice.

The Margin Men

The Navy That Time Forgot

Where the Wild Boys Are

 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.

Where the Wild Boys Are

The Navy That Time Forgot

Where the Wild Boys Are

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 

The Navy That Time Forgot

The Navy That Time Forgot

The Navy That Time Forgot

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 

The Last Cavalier series: The Fire's Lit. Stories Are Coming

The Last Cavalier saga isn't just a story...

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...

...it's a reckoning.

This is The Last Cavalier saga - where war isn't just fought with sabers and rifles, but with ghosts, secrets, and the unbearable weight of legacy.

...and it's coming.

Book One: The Last Cavalier rides in soon.

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Where Legends Begin and Empires Burn

The Last Cavalier

The Ballad of Franco Loco

The Last Cavalier

 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. 













The Legionnaire

The Ballad of Franco Loco

The Last Cavalier

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.



The Ballad of Franco Loco

The Ballad of Franco Loco

 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

The Dragon of the Camargue

   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.

Beneath The Red Clay

 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.

About the Author

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.

U.S. Copyright and WGA Registration Protected

 © Mark Ferland writing as Jack Ledger. All rights reserved.
Storylines, characters, and universe materials are protected under U.S. Copyright and WGA registration 


Copyright © 2025 Jack Ledger - All Rights Reserved.

  • Author
  • Where Legends Begin
  • The Ledger Dispatches
  • The Last Cavalier
  • The Ballad of Franco Loco
  • The Legionnaire
  • Dragon of the Camargue
  • Beneath The Red Clay
  • Meet the Writer

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