Jared Marchand

3 booksScience FictionAdventurePost-Apocalyptic

J Lee is an avid worldbuilder and fantasy novelist with a lifelong fascination for grand mythologies, ancient ruins, and high-stakes survival stories. Drawing inspiration from classical mythology and grimdark fantasy, Lee crafts expansive worlds populated by complex antiheroes, terrifying creatures, and forgotten deities. When not mapping out the rugged landscapes of Pithaka or detailing epic battles, Lee enjoys hiking mountainous trails, collecting vintage fantasy artwork, and reading late into the night. City of the Five marks the beginning of an ambitious new dark fantasy epic.

Books

Protocol Reclamation #1

A scavenger crew awakens a buried war AI and reclaims a dead continent

Science Fiction
Adventure

Eighty years after nuclear fire turned the world into ash and vitrified glass, scavenger Carl Garrison and his crew live by what they can haul from the Deadwater Basin. In Hollow Bend they buy a set of coordinates to Site Charlie, a sealed pre-war installation under the Smoky Mountains. Warlord Ivan Radek hears the same rumor, burns the settlement, and sends mechanized hunters after them. Inside the slag they wake Abel, a military artificial intelligence still bound by continuity directives. Abel arms civilians it was never meant to serve: drone grids, Mastodon haulers, mag-lev lines, and assault frames that have slept since the last war. Across sieges, seed vaults, and a frozen escarpment, Carl, Diana, and Wes race Radek to Command Redoubt Omega. If they fail, the last archives of life stay dark. If they win, fourteen continental vaults come back online, and every remaining warlord learns the monopoly on survival is over. Protocol Reclamation #1 is post-apocalyptic military science fiction about found family, buried machines, and the cost of lighting the world again.

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The Platinum Clutch

One stolen egg. Two immortal wars. Mercy or the end of all dragons.

Fantasy
Adventure

The war between Light and Darkness has already consumed the immortal sky. Green and white dragons were never more than fodder—until Lord Zarka and Lady Desas steal the last platinum egg and flee into the mortal world. There they are trapped in human bodies: no wings, no breath, only leftover strength, healing, and senses sharp enough to taste a lie. Behind them come the golden zealot Orson Krell and the black warlord Kendra Fell, carving bases into mortal soil. Ahead of them wait imperial steel, leylines, and humans who want the egg as badly as any dragon. With a frontier scout, a smuggler, and a reclusive earth mage, Zarka and Desas hide in the wilds and feed power into a relic that already speaks—Frea Mallow, unborn and already choosing sides. Bronze honor cracks. Blue loyalty wavers. Grand Marshal Jarek Grim will burn the forest to claim a god. When three armies hit the sanctuary at once, lesser dragons have one hope: that the hatchling they stole will rule with mercy instead of fire.

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Dawnbringer

In a shattered world of fallen gods, humanity's final refuge becomes their battleground

Fantasy

Two thousand years ago, the five gods fell, and the light of Pithaka went out. Once masters of a thriving world, humanity has been hunted to the brink of extinction. Enslaved and slaughtered by dark elf vampires and their savage were-beast thralls, the remnants of mankind have retreated to their final sanctuary: the treacherous Five Points Mountains, named in honor of the dead deities. Here, amid jagged peaks where no creature of darkness dares tread, a desperate stand begins. As the predatory shadow under Kreag Mountain spreads ever wider, humanity's last stronghold must either rise with steel and ancient sorcery or be snuffed out forever. In a world where gods are dead and monsters rule the plains, survival demands more than endurance—it demands blood. From author J Lee comes an epic dark fantasy saga of ruined empires, ancient blasphemies, and the unbreakable spirit of mankind.

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