Stories that hold true north.

On this coast, a debt is not written down. It is notched.

1825. The raiders of the Sulu Sea take what they want from the Visayan coast, and what they take most is people. When a Balangingi captain seizes the daughter of a village headman, he thinks he has taken cargo. He has taken the one captive who can read the Spanish letters bargaining over her price. Every ransom offer now passes through her hands. A friar in Zamboanga is trying to buy her back. The captain is deciding what she is worth. And she is learning exactly what each of them will pay, and what it will cost her to go home.

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Her people have one law above all others. She is about to break it.

At the edge of the great forest, a huntress of the Blue Mountains meets a trader of the giant Arxii, a man her people's oldest law forbids her to love. What follows is one season of stolen fires, and a killing staged to look like a monster's work. Thirty years later, the silence still holds, kept by a father, a scholar, and the one man who was never permitted to mourn.

Some crimes are never confessed. Some loves are never allowed. And in the river country, the water keeps everything it is given.

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Kyle has watched every survival documentary ever made. He is about to find out which ones were wrong.

One too many beers, one too many brags: Kyle can survive anywhere. The next morning he wakes in Marcus Aurelius's Rome. The morning after, a Viking farmstead. Then Mansa Musa's Cairo. Then a pirate fleet. He can't sleep until he survives a good day, he can't go home until he works out who is running this game, and history's greatest figures are nothing like the documentaries. Napoleon has no patience. Leonidas has opinions. And Kyle's confidence keeps getting him into trouble his knowledge can't get him out of.

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You think you chose to pick up this book. Are you sure?

Every day you make thousands of decisions, and nearly all of them were made before you noticed. Habit, instinct, wiring, history: the machinery runs quietly and lets you believe you're driving. Across twenty chapters, this book follows that machinery from the choices we're proud of to the ones we'd rather not examine. And it ends where the argument has to: if a human is a machine that thinks it's free, what separates us from the machines we're building now? More data? More experience? More source code, perhaps?

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