The Chariot Protocol
Universe
The characters in the novel existed before page one. These are the companion pieces — prequel fiction set in the same world, following the same people, before everything went wrong.
The Pulse
Peggy Malone, Army nurse, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio. Thirty years before the events of the novel. A young woman who learns to find the person still present underneath the damage — and address that person directly, not the chart.
Read the story →The Human Thread
Pat King, Executive Assistant, VA Central Office, Washington DC. Two years before the events of the novel. The woman who holds the institution together — one phone call, one name remembered, one human thread at a time.
Read the story →He Always Did Have a Knack
Nathan Thorne and Mike Sanders, Air Intelligence Agency, San Antonio. Thirty years before the events of the novel. A friendship built on hardware, and the small decisive moment that changes Mike’s life.
Read the story →The Long Way Home
Phill Dawson, Marine Corps Staff Sergeant, Vienna, Virginia. A Vietnam veteran comes home to a country that has moved on without him — and finds his way back to himself.
Read the story →In Order
Ann Deering has always known where everything is. A story about a precise woman, a man with a rubber band around his wallet, and the price she almost paid to become someone else.
Read the story →Within Acceptable Parameters
Victor Radek, Staff Sergeant, Air Intelligence Agency, San Antonio. Thirty years before his arrest. The man who handed Nathan Thorne the argument that made everything possible — and never knew what he’d built.
Read the story →More Universe Fiction
Additional companion stories in development, expanding the world before the novel’s publication.
In DevelopmentThe Chariot Protocol
CHARIOT. Veterans Day. The only man who can stop it and the key his dead friend left behind. Publication forthcoming.
Coming SoonNew stories, when they’re ready.
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