Story Directory
All announced Deus Ex Machina stories, both released, in progress, and planned.
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Select a title to learn more about it.
All Stories in Chronological Order
Gemini
Taking place hundreds of years before the rest of Deus Ex Machina, Gemini tells the story of the god twins, Aurora and Dilucos, growing up in the pantheon. These stories are released in brief installments, each one building on the next.
Release Status
Gemini is a collection of short stories that are being released gradually as they're written. Currently, two stories have already been released. There are eight more stories slotted to be written for the collection, though no hard and fast deadline for when they'll be released, or what method they'll be published in.
Featured Characters
Aurora
Dilucos
Luna
Sol
Mors
Medella
Fortuna
Where To Read
Only on my website, here.
Short Story Collection
Sundered Skies
Aurora and Dilucos, now teenagers, engage in a routine sparring session that goes horribly wrong. Taking place after the events of the entire Gemini saga, "Sundered Skies" is an addendum to the Gemini stories. Reading all of Gemini is not required to understand "Sundered Skies."
Release Status
"Sundered Skies" is fully written and available to read online! I have plans to release a physical booklet of this story as well.
Featured Characters
Aurora
Dilucos
Sol
Where To Read
Only on my website, here.
Short Story
Aurora
Aurora, now fully grown, falls in love with a mortal against Sol's explicit ban. When her secret gets out, Sol banishes her to the human realm indefinitely. Now trapped in Auroris with the very first demigod in tow, the former Princess of Caeles must deal with the horrific consequences of a god living among mortals.
Release Status
To be released after all three acts of The Book of Luna are published.
Featured Characters
Aurora
Dilucos
Luna
Sol
Where To Read
Currently unreleased.
Novel
Mors
In the Year 499, a forbidden magic meant to remain under lock and key is broken free of its prison and unleased upon Auroris. The problem is that this magic is seen as a blessing, not the horror it truly is. Mors, the only one who recognizes the danger this magic presents, must either shove it back into its prison, or eliminate it entirely. But some magic is too powerful even for the God of Death to handle...
Release Status
Mors is slotted into the greater timeline, and the events that take place in this story do affect the overall story. However, writing has not yet begun, as this book spoils important content in Book Two of the main trilogy. It will likely not be released until well after The Book of Luna.
Featured Characters
Mors
Briar Reed
Rene Morvell
Medella
Where To Read
Currently unreleased.
Novel
Promise of Night
What's the difference between love and obsession?
Cecily longs to leave her mark on Auroris by cracking the secrets of forgotten magic. After years of trying, she meets a beautiful and mysterious stranger who offers to assist her in her research. In exchange, all he asks is that she bears him the stars...
Release Status
Promise of Night has been completely written, and features both a free digital copy available on my website and an illustrated edition available for purchase. Plans are in the works to produce and release an audiobook edition of this book.
In the past, I also released extremely limited copies of handbound hardcovers of this book. These books are no longer in production, but the paperback edition is still available.
Featured Characters
Cecily Vear
Simon Summers
Dilucos
Where To Read
Novella
Free digital, text-only edition:
Found here on my website.
Illustrated paperback: Purchase off my shop, or find the print-on-demand link here.
Illustrated hardcover: Out of print
Illustrated e-book: TBA​
Audiobook: TBA
Hollowed Ground
Now trapped in a sigil of her own creation, Cecily has no memory of what she is or how she got there... Until she suddenly has a visitor.
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This brief story is the immediate sequel to Promise of Night.
Release Status
"Hollowed Ground" is fully written and available to read online! I have plans to release a physical booklet of this story as well.
Featured Characters
Cecily Vear
Dilucos
Where To Read
Only on my website, here.
Flash Fiction
Ascension
Dilucos decides he's had enough of being the pantheon's personal doormat. With the help of Cassis, he fashions himself into a new person to rival even his father, Sol.
Release Status
Writing has started on this book, but its release is relegated to after, at the very least, both Acts 1 and 2 of The Book of Luna are released, as much of Ascension occurs parallel to The Book of Luna.
You can read a few select scenes from Ascension at the end of the print editions of Promise of Night.
Featured Characters
Dilucos
Cecily Vear
Cassis
Luna
Sol
Malitia
Fortuna
Aurora
Where To Read
Currently unreleased.
Excerpt available only in the print edition of Promise of Night.
Novel
Vindicta
Vaughn and Iris are inducted as Luna's Blades after the sudden and brutal death of their predecessors. Against their own creed, Vaughn and Iris make it their mission to exact vengeance on whomever was responsible for the death of their mentors. At the same time, they're tasked by the Moon Temple to pick up the same job that got the previous Blades killed: put a stop to the string of demigod kidnappings occurring across the Moon Level, by whatever means necessary.
Release Status
Vindicta is still in its early planning and outlining phases. While the events of this book are vaguely alluded to in future stories, it is largely independent from the rest of the Deus Ex Machina storyline. As such, it can be released at any time without fear of spoilers.
Featured Characters
Vaughn
Iris
Florence Moore
The Priestess
Vera
Fin Enfield
Lucian Summers
Nelson Zicari
Where To Read
Currently unreleased.
Novel
Testing Her Metal
Mina is convinced she's a demigod, though her father refuses to believe her theory. Fin and Mina work together to discover the truth of her bloodline.
Release Status
"Testing Her Metal" is fully written and available to read online! I also have plans to release this story in physical print as part of a short story collection known as Tales of Auroris Volume 1. An audiobook version is available free to listen on Youtube.
Featured Characters
Mina Enfield
Fin Enfield
Where To Read
Free, digital, text-only edition:
Found here on my website
Free audiobook: Available on my YouTube
Illustrated paperback: TBA
Short Story
The Puzzle Box
It's Mina's 18th birthday, and Fin tells her he wants her to meet a friend of his. Fin did not inform said friend of this fact.
Release Status
"The Puzzle Box" is fully written and available to read online! I also have plans to release this story in physical print as part of a short story collection known as Tales of Auroris Volume 1. An audiobook version is available free to listen on Youtube.
Featured Characters
Mina Enfield
Fin Enfield
Lucian Summers
Where To Read
Free, digital, text-only edition:
Found here on my website
Free audiobook: Available on my YouTube
Illustrated paperback: TBA
Short Story
A Matter of Perspective
While recovering from her demigod tests, Mina joins Fin in a surprise visit to Lucian in the Moon Level.
Release Status
"A Matter of Perspective" is fully written and available to read online! I also have plans to release this story in physical print as part of a short story collection known as Tales of Auroris Volume 1.
Featured Characters
Mina Enfield
Fin Enfield
Lucian Summers
Helen
Where To Read
Novella
Heart of the Issue
Lucian's mentor, Iris, finds out about his budding relationship with Mina.
Release Status
"Heart of the Issue" is fully written and available to read online! I also have plans to release this story in physical print as part of a short story collection known as Tales of Auroris Volume 1.
Featured Characters
Lucian Summers
Aaron Wilson
Iris
Where To Read
Short Story
Honing the Blades
Lucian and Aaron start on their path to becoming Luna's Blades, assassins for the Temple of the Moon.
Release Status
"Honing the Blades" is fully written and available to read online! I also have plans to release this story in physical print as part of a short story collection known as Tales of Auroris Volume 1.
Featured Characters
Aaron Wilson
Lucian Summers
Vaughn
Iris
Vera
The Priestess
Luna
Where To Read
Novella
Prohibition Inhibitions
Fin struggles to train his magic with disastrous effects, and Lucian is forced to come to terms with the nature of his relationship to Mina.
Release Status
"Prohibition Inhibitions" is fully written and available to read online! I also have plans to release this story in physical print as part of a short story collection known as Tales of Auroris Volume 1.
Featured Characters
Fin Enfield
Mina Enfield
Lucian Summers
Mathilda Parlow
Where To Read
Novella
Roan's Story (Untitled)
The story of how Roan became Zicari's second-in-command.
Release Status
While this story isn't started yet, I'm planning to write and release it with Tales of Auroris Volume 1. It will be exclusive to this story collection.
Featured Characters
Roan
Nelson Zicari
Where To Read
Currently unreleased.
Novella
Rest Less
What happens when a Blade finally gets a day off?
Release Status
"Rest Less" is fully written and available to read online! I have plans to release a physical booklet of this story as well.
Featured Characters
Lucian Summers
The Priestess
Helen
Where To Read
Only on my website, here.
Flash Fiction
Devil's Deal
This story is so top secret, I can't even give you a summary about it. The closer we get to its potential release, however, is when I'll release the summary.
Release Status
This story will be written and released sometime after Act 2 of The Book of Luna is published. "Devil's Deal" will likely be included in Tales of Auroris Volume 2.
Featured Characters
TBA
Where To Read
Currently unreleased.
Short Story
Lights and Shadows
During the Moon Level's annual Festival of Lights and Shadows, Mina's squadron is assigned to protect a wealthy and prominent inventor from House Narat. Unfortunately, he happens to be the same man that Luna's Blades have been instructed to eliminate. Lucian must decide where his loyalties lie: with his duties as a Blade, or with Mina, his newly-acquired girlfriend.
Release Status
The plot of this story has already been established, but it's not yet drafted. Lights and Shadows has little bearing on The Book of Luna, but will lead into and introduce prominent characters in Book 2 of the main trilogy. Lights and Shadows will be released as its own novella, much like Promise of Night was. The timeline for release on this one is flexible.
Featured Characters
Lucian Summers
Mina Enfield
Aaron Wilson
Gabriel Bishop
Rene Morvell
Elsie
Mors
Where To Read
Novella
Currently unreleased.
Danse Macabre
This story is so top secret, I can't even give you a summary about it. The closer we get to its potential release, however, is when I'll release the summary.
Release Status
This story will be written and released sometime after Act 2 of The Book of Luna is published. "Danse Macabre" will likely be included in Tales of Auroris Volume 2.
Featured Characters
Fin Enfield
Mina Enfield
Mathilda Parlow
Ada Moore
Damon Barimore
Elaine Barimore
Roan
Where To Read
Currently unreleased.
Short Story
Roulette
This story is so top secret, I can't even give you a summary about it. The closer we get to its potential release, however, is when I'll release the summary.
Release Status
This story will be written and released sometime after Act 2 of The Book of Luna is published. Roulette will likely be included in Tales of Auroris Volume 2.
Featured Characters
Fin Enfield
Mathilda Parlow
Mina Enfield
Where To Read
Currently unreleased.
Novella
Finesse
During target practice, Roan makes an interesting discovery with a fellow Blue Devil.
Release Status
"Finesse" is fully written and available to read online! I have plans to release a physical booklet of this story as well.
Featured Characters
Roan
Old Man
Where To Read
Only on my website, here.
Flash Fiction
Fortune's Favor
While taking a much-needed day off with Damon at the Moon Level casinos, Fin winds up drawing the attention of someone he never expected.
Release Status
"Fortune's Favor" is fully written and available to read online! I have plans to release a physical booklet of this story as well.
Featured Characters
Fin Enfield
Damon Barimore
Lucky
Fortuna
Where To Read
Only on my website, here.
Short Story
The Book of Luna
Luna commissions her Blades (Lucian & Aaron) to take down certain targets of her choosing in the city of Auroris. This is against the explicit orders of her husband, Sol (God of the Sun and king of the gods), who implemented a ban on godly interference with human affairs. Luna currently has her sights set on Nelson Zicari, longtime leader of the Blue Devils, the most powerful and influential gang in Auroris. Zicari is viciously ambitious, no longer content with practically owning half the city. He wants the whole thing. While Lucian & Aaron are well-trained, they are young and ill-equipped to take down Zicari alone. They have not yet lived up to the names of their predecessors.
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Meanwhile, Roan works for Zicari, and she's grown increasingly uncomfortable with his bloodthirsty methods. She wants to put a stop to him and take his place as leader of the Blue Devils. But she has secrets of her own she wants kept.
As this is happening in the mortal realm, there's also a plot to overthrow Sol in the godly realm. Mors (God of the Dying) and Medella (Goddess of the Living) are unwillingly caught in the middle of this plot, and they must untangle where their allegiances truly lie. The fate of the godly and mortal realms are intertwined when a god is murdered, a supposedly impossible feat.
Release Status
The longest and most complicated of all my stories, The Book of Luna will have a unique release method to reflect this.
Due to its length, The Book of Luna will be published in 3 Acts. Each act will be bound and released in its own paperback book, until all three acts have come out. At that point, I plan to make a compendium of The Book of Luna in its entirety. The physical books will most likely be released through Kickstarter initially, before being available through other major retailers.
However, The Book of Luna will also be available to read online through a subscription to my Patreon. Chapters will be updated monthly as they're completed.
Featured Characters
Luna
Sol
Lucian Summers
Aaron Wilson
Mors
Medella
Dilucos
Roan
Nelson Zicari
Fin Enfield
Mina Enfield
3-Part Novel
Where To Read
Currently unreleased.