Book One
The Judge's Feet
A Charleston judge enters a private system that has learned to dress appetite as procedure. The opening volume of The Bad Apples Series.
- Series
- The Bad Apples Series, Volume One
- Length
- 168,000 words
- Structure
- Prologue + 32 chapters + Epilogue
- Status
- Manuscript certified — publication forthcoming
- ISBN
- Forthcoming
About the book
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.
The opening volume of The Bad Apples Series, an ongoing literary project examining institutional power, inheritance, and the moment a private ritual becomes public governance.
Adult readers only. Contains explicit sexual content, depictions of institutional and ritual violence, racial dynamics rendered as historical and present-day inheritance, and themes of coercion, control, and the architectures of consent within private and public systems. Reader discretion advised.
Availability: Publication date will be announced through the Lucky Titan Publishing newsletter and on this site. ISBN forthcoming. No preorder is open at this time.