The Reckoning Cycle

The Reckoning Cycle is a sweeping, multi-format historical fantasy romance epic that follows a brilliant female ship pilot and her deeply devoted captain across life, a tragic death, and the haunting landscape of the afterlife. Rooted in authentic 16th-century maritime history, the cycle evolves from a high-seas workplace romance into an eternal, speculative ghost story that explores themes of identity, female agency, and the persistence of self after profound tragedy.

The saga begins with a collection of prose prequels (The Reckoning Cycle Anthology), tracking the couple’s intense workplace pining and sensual, open-door relationship aboard the Esperança—culminating in a catastrophic 1583 shipwreck where the entire crew perishes.

The narrative then transitions into a stunning visual medium with Dead Reckoning, a core historical fantasy graphic novel detailing the sixty-year ghost loop that binds the lovers to the sea. Future volumes in the cycle break past the loop, charting the couple’s expansive journey together through the afterlife. Moving from slow-burn pining to deep, emotionally mature passion, The Reckoning Cycle is an atmospheric, immortal love story perfect for fans of lyrical speculative fiction and eternal bonds.

The Reckoning Cycle will appeal to readers who love the sweeping, memory-bending mechanics of V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue combined with the haunting, emotionally mature historical atmosphere of Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts.

Like Schwab’s work, this series masterfully explores a deep, immortal romance where one partner is left carrying the weight of remembrance across iterations while the other is trapped in a cycle. It pairs this high-stakes romantic tension with an authentic, atmospheric 16th-century maritime setting, echoing the heavy grief, strong female agency, and liminal ghost mechanics found in Arden’s historical speculative fiction.

Immortal Affections

Beautifully Dead is a dark, dual-timeline epistolary paranormal romance and gothic medical thriller co-authored with Joe Gillis.
Unfolding across parallel eras, the narrative mirrors a modern-day academic mystery with a forbidden, wartime romance hidden within Civil War letters.

The series introduces a unique, predatory undead affliction—a historical zombie disease that tore through military hospitals and has suddenly resurfaced as a modern pandemic. Blending high-stakes biological suspense with a deeply emotional, star-crossed love story, Beautifully Dead explores sacrifice, survival, and the terrifying line between life and death.

The serial universe can be read online via the official subscription hub at Immortal Affections.

Beautifully Dead is perfect for fans who devour the dark, visceral medical horror of Caitlin Starling’s The Death of Jane Lawrence and the intricate, letters-driven mysteries of Simone St. James. Mirroring Starling’s striking blend of a clinical medical thriller with a blood-soaked gothic haunting, this novel features an academic pairing navigating a terrifying, historical biological affliction.

By utilizing a dual-timeline structure tied together through a forgotten trunk of wartime correspondence, the narrative mirrors the eerie, epistolary tension of a classic St. James ghost mystery, where the secrets of the past directly infect the survival of the modern day.

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