The Reckoning Cycle
All the Drowned Stars
An emotionally driven, sensual historical romance anthology charting the origin of an eternal bond from quiet workplace pining to open-door passion.
Before the storm, before the tragedy, there was the Esperança. This prose anthology collects the essential prequel novelettes Corpo Santo and The Last Crossing, alongside exclusive, tender slice-of-life stories detailing the deep romance between a brilliant female pilot and her protective captain.
Novel ·
Book 01 in the Reckoning Cycle
All the Drowned Stars
Inês dos Santos has been reading the stars since she was thirteen. By sixteen, the sea had already taken her only parent. By twenty-five, it had given her a ship, a crew, and a captain she would never be able to forget.
This collection follows her from that first chart to her last — the years that made her a navigator, the voyage that made her his, and the crossing that takes them both.
Read it as her whole life, in order. Or start with her ghost, and work backward to understand what she lost.
This definitive collection weaves together completely expanded and polished versions of Corpo Santo and The Last Crossing into a singular, fluid narrative timeline.
- Format: Prose Anthology (Novelettes & Short Stories)
- Heat Level: Slow burn / Pining to Open Door (Sensual)
A Taste From the Universe
This unedited, standalone draft of this fateful 1583 voyage remains available exclusively as a free newsletter lead magnet.
Novelette ·
Free download
The Last Crossing
The tragic final voyage that seals their fate and births the sixty-year ghost loop of Dead Reckoning.
Five years into their secret romance on the Esperança, the tension between Inês and her captain has reached a breaking point. Her captain wants marriage, but Inês fiercely defends her independence. They leave Lisbon with a bitter, three-week silence hanging between them.
The rift deepens in West Africa when the captain hires a second navigator without her knowledge—a mysterious pilot harboring a dark secret. Though this new pilot’s catastrophic course forces Inês to step into her power to save the vessel from the weather, the ship is already doomed. This is the fateful 1583 voyage where the entire crew perishes at sea, transforming Inês into a wandering ghost and setting off a haunting romance .
- Timeline: Immediate Prequel to Dead Reckoning
- Format: Prose Novelette
- Themes: Doomed romance, tragic historical fantasy, ghost story origin.
The Dutch Angle
(Creative Memoir & Companion)
The ultimate behind-the-scenes companion and creative memoir detailing the world-building, historical research, and making of the Dead Reckoning comic.
How do you build a haunted 16th-century ship before it sails? The Dutch Angle pulls back the curtain on the creation of The Reckoning Cycle universe.
Perfect for indie comic fans and process-driven readers, this companion volume compiles original scripts, exclusive artist notes, a comprehensive historical glossary, and deadline-driven creative decisions. Blending nonfiction insight with bonus fiction snippets, it offers an intimate look at the meticulous craftsmanship behind the maritime fantasy.
- Format: Creative Memoir / Behind-the-Scenes Companion
🖊 In drafting — coming soon
Dead Reckoning
(Comic / Graphic Novel)
A haunting historical fantasy comic about a dead pilot, the captain who loves her, and the sixty-year ghost loop that binds them to the sea.
Inês has been dead for sixty years. She just doesn’t know it yet.
Every time she wakes from a shipwreck, she is trapped in a terrifying iteration: she must navigate a different vessel and find the captain before a brutal storm kills everyone aboard. She is certain she is saving the living. In reality, she has spent decades walking right past the one man who has been standing behind her on every single ship—her immortal lover, trying desperately to become real enough for her to see him.
With a monstrous storm building at the Cape, a living crew is about to repeat the fatal mistake Inês failed to stop in 1583. Now, she faces her final reckoning: will she use her power to save a crew that cannot hear her, or will she finally look at the devoted man who has waited sixty years for her to remember him?
The comic will be re-released in the future as exclusive content.
- Format: Graphic Novel / Comic
- Tropes: Time loops, ghost romance, he falls first, strong heroine.
Frequently Asked Questions about
The Reckoning Cycle
Q: What order should I read The Reckoning Cycle series?
A: The ideal reading order begins with the full prose collection, All the Drowned Stars, which details the characters’ living relationship. This is followed by the core graphic novel, Dead Reckoning, and finally the companion volume, The Dutch Angle.
Q: Is All the Drowned Stars a separate book from The Last Crossing?
A: All the Drowned Stars is the definitive retail collection that expands, edits, and structurally weaves The Last Crossing together with exclusive new material into a fluid narrative.
Q: Is Dead Reckoning a comic book or a prose novel?
A: Dead Reckoning is a historical fantasy comic/graphic novel. A prose edition is int he works.
Q: What is the romance heat level and spice of the series?
A: The series features an emotionally driven, high-stakes romance that moves from slow-burn workplace pining in the prequels to an open-door, deeply sensual relationship.
Q: Is The Reckoning Cycle a paranormal romance?
A: The series is best categorized as a Tragic Historical Fantasy Romance. While it features ghosts, time loops, and Speculative elements, it is rooted in real-world 16th-century maritime history rather than modern urban paranormal settings.