Linked, not serialized
Each book is written to be read individually. Together they form a single architecture. There is no cliffhanger between volumes.
The Bad Apples Series
An ongoing literary project.
The Judge's Feet is 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.
Opening volume
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.
- Volume One
- The Judge's Feet (forthcoming)
- Register
- Contemporary literary fiction, institutional-gothic
- Imprint
- Lucky Titan Publishing
- Author
- Lucky Titan (pen name)
Approach
A small, deliberate shelf.
Register over plot
The novels live or die by voice and pressure. Plot serves the pressure system; the pressure system is the point.
Certified before publication
Each manuscript runs an eight-gate editorial process before it is certified for publication. No manuscript is announced before certification closes.