Where history fractures, and legends rise.
From the burning streets of revolt, to the endless river of the Amazon, to the scandal-ridden studios of Hollywood — Samuel Stephen writes chronicles that blur myth and reality.
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Defiance of Silence
England, 1381. A peasant girl refuses to kneel — and sparks a revolt that will change history.
A reimagining of the Peasants’ Revolt told from the margins of power. When tax collectors descend on a Kentish village, a young woman witnesses a killing that binds her fate to the riots racing toward London. As priests preach restraint and lords demand obedience, she navigates a city in flames, a movement divided, and a prophecy that may cost her everything. The novel blends chronicle fragments, folk belief, and hard choices to ask what resistance really demands — and who pays the price when history turns.
A River Unrelenting
The Amazon, 1541. Orellana’s expedition descends into a river that remembers everything — and forgives nothing.
When a splintered band of conquistadors drifts into the unknown, hunger and fever are the least of their torments. Villages appear where no map admits they exist; voices echo upstream; the water carries relics of crimes the soldiers have not yet committed. Told through alternating journals — a friar clinging to faith, a soldier bargaining with guilt, a woman taken as a guide who knows the river’s true name — this literary horror reimagines Europe’s first descent of the Amazon as a reckoning with a landscape that keeps accounts.
The Orbits of Stars
Hollywood, 1910–1930. In the dawn of cinema, some secrets are worth killing for.
As nickelodeons become palaces and actors become gods, a studio fixer cleans up messes the gossip rags never print: contract disputes, ruined girls, dead bodies with the wrong witnesses. When a lost reel surfaces — a silent short that implicates the town’s most bankable face — the fixer’s quiet orbit begins to decay. Rival moguls, evangelists, and a detective with a camera for a conscience converge in a city where images make truth, and truth is the most dangerous currency.
Ravens over Ulaid
When the longships darken the eastern seas, Ulster holds its breath.
In the year of the Norse descent, omens gather like storm clouds and ravens circle above the sacred hills of Emain Macha. Caught between clan feuds and the fury of the raiders, one young warrior must choose between loyalty to his people and survival in a land where gods are silent and kings falter. From the stone circles of Ulaid to the bloodied surf of the northern coast, the clash of spear and axe will decide not only who rules—but who endures. *Ravens Over Ulaid* is a tale of invasion and resistance, where myth bleeds into history and every oath is tested in fire.
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