When I started The Ledger of Survival, I didn’t do it with a plan for a series. I was trying to put something down before it slipped further away. The first book was about recording what happened without softening it, without shaping it into something easier to digest. Once it was finished, I realized there was more that hadn’t been written yet—not because it was forgotten, but because it hadn’t reached the surface.
The second book, Between the Wounded and the Living, comes from that...