The Court
The Judge's Feet opens in a Charleston courtroom. Sydney's bench is the public face of a system whose private architecture begins inside her own family. The legal voice runs through the novel as both register and instrument.
Lucky Titan Publishing
The Bad Apples Series begins with The Judge's Feet.
A literary gothic novel about law, power, inheritance, and the private cost of obedience.
Forthcoming
Manuscript certified
Adult readers only
Publication date TBA
Book One
The Judge's Feet
The Judge's Feet follows Sydney Walters, a Charleston judge whose private practice has been engineered, before her birth, into a public-facing institution. Across the autumn weeks of her absorption into the Georgetown house she inherits — its scheduled rituals, its wine-pour silences, its seven women — Sydney's law and her body become the same instrument. The novel closes at two in the morning, with the architect at Windsor and the chair still holding her.
Adult readers only. Contains explicit content, institutional violence, and depictions of coercion within ritual and legal systems.
- Series
- The Bad Apples Series, Volume One
- Length
- 168,000 words
- Status
- Manuscript certified — publication forthcoming
- Register
- Contemporary literary fiction
Book One Context
Four anchors
The Transfer
A young man is moved from one institution to another by paperwork Sydney signs. The transfer is a single afternoon and a permanent record. The book returns to it.
The House
Sydney is absorbed into a Georgetown residence whose women, schedule, and silence she has not chosen. The house teaches her body what her bench could not.
The Record
Sydney narrates from a position that can no longer separate her from what she records. The novel is the record. The architect keeps her place.