If you just found the Echoes of Fortune, start here. This is the map of the whole world: the novels, the free stories, and the one file I keep off the shelf.
The Echoes of Fortune universe has more stories than the novels alone can hold. Three of them are free to read right now, no email required, no signup gate. Yours.
Emma and the Lady in Blue
Emma Wilson stays late at the Smithsonian. The painting on the wall has been waiting for her for three centuries. Tonight, it intends to be heard.
The Last Ledger
Richmond, 1865. The city is burning. One Confederate Treasury clerk has one night to decide whether a ledger full of names lives or dies with the Confederacy.
Priya and the Language of Normal
A government network analyst notices traffic patterns that shouldn’t exist. The anomaly doesn’t just adapt to her countermeasures. It anticipates them.
These are open access. No form, no follow-up. Three more pieces of the world while you wait for what is next.
There is also a fourth. It is different.
Containment
Containment is restricted. Afghanistan, 2009. The mission was clean. Every objective achieved. Every contingency unused. So why does something feel wrong?
I do not put Containment on the open shelf. To read it, you verify yourself. BookFunnel handles the secure delivery and will ask you to confirm your email so the file routes straight to your Kindle, Apple Books, or other reading app. Takes 30 seconds.
If you have already finished Shadows Over Cozumel, Containment will hit harder than you expect. Some of what happens to Steve in Cozumel makes complete sense once you read this file.
For everyone else, the three open stories above are a good place to start.