Novels in progress

A catalog of four thrillers being written, slowly, from the studio's desk.

Psychological suspense, gothic noir, and one historical fiction. Each one treats darkness as something to look at directly — not to decorate around. None are finished. All are alive.

Novels in progress

Planned tomes

Writing language

2024—

Ongoing since

VOL. 01

Les Disciples
du Crépuscule

T.I / IIFR

GenrePsychological thriller

FormatDuology · Tome I in progress

Target~115,000 words · 30 chapters

LanguageFrench

Les Disciples du Crépuscule

Tome I — La Découverte

A journalist and a former psychologist cross paths in the village of Saintelune. Hidden in the surrounding forest, a secluded manor shelters a cult — Les Disciples du Crépuscule — run by a charismatic figure known only as the Guide. Both protagonists have their own reason to get close: one wants the story, the other is looking for his missing sister. What they find inside is larger, older, and better protected than either of them imagined.

Protagonist 01

Léa Moreau, investigative journalist

Protagonist 02

Thomas, former psychologist

Antagonist

Soren Malthus, "Le Guide"

Setting

Saintelune — forest, manor, and what lies under

Tome I progress

EARLY CHAPTERS

VOL. 02

Blackwater
: La Chute

STANDALONEFR

GenreDramatic thriller

FormatStandalone · draft

SettingHollow Creek · Halloween

LanguageFrench

Blackwater : La Chute

A small town. One night. Three women.

October snow falls on Hollow Creek like a white shroud. A woman's car is found by the Blackwater river, bloodstains on the seat, the driver missing. Three years after her brother Marcus's "accidental" death, Sloane returns to the town she swore she'd never see again. She's not the only one looking for answers — and some of the questions being asked were meant to stay buried with the old families who run this place.

Protagonist

Sloane, returning after 3 years

Catalyst

Lily's disappearance on Oct. 30

Setting

Hollow Creek, Midwest — old-money families

Atmosphere

Autumnal, Halloween, river noir

Draft progress

CHAPTERS 1–7

VOL. 03

Les Ombres
d'Ashford

STANDALONEFR

GenreGothic thriller

FormatStandalone · outline

SettingA private school. A village. England.

LanguageFrench

Les Ombres d'Ashford

What the walls of the school refuse to forget.

A private English school and the village that surrounds it. Two communities, one set of walls between them, and a long list of names no one wants to say out loud. A gothic thriller about institutional silence, the things adults teach children to hide, and the places in the countryside where the past never actually left.

Setting

Ashford — private school & village

Themes

Silence, hierarchy, inherited guilt

Mood

Gothic, English countryside, winter

Status

Outline & character work

Outline progress

STRUCTURE

VOL. 04

1944 :
Deux Destins

STANDALONEFR

GenreHistorical fiction — WWII

FormatStandalone · research & plan

StructurePrologue + 20 chapters · alternating POV

LanguageFrench

1944 : Deux Destins

Two parallel lives colliding under occupation.

Ernst, a young German soldier sent to the Eastern Front. He didn't choose this war — only to survive it. Sarah, eighteen, a Jewish woman from Alsace, fleeing south through an increasingly closing country. Two destinies unfolding in parallel, each chapter alternating between them, neither knowing the other exists — until the last chapters, when the war decides for them. Written without romanticism — the war as it was.

Destin 01

Ernst — soldier, Eastern Front

Destin 02

Sarah, 18 — Alsatian, fleeing south

Tone

Raw, realistic, no romanticism

Structure

Alternating POV · 20 chapters

Preparation

RESEARCH PHASE

Every city has its secrets. Some cities bury them. I'd rather open the ground.

— Archange, writer's note

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