Ishar · Deep Witness
He has lived long enough to know how the world works. Then something impossible disappears.
Ishar has spent more than a century surviving dangerous work, old contracts, and institutions built to outlive their people. When the halo he trusted disappears, the search exposes everything he never thought to question.
Start with The Golden WakeThe Deep Witness Trilogy
Who is Ishar?
Ishar knows how to read a dangerous room, keep a crew alive, and spot the cost hidden in a contract. Experience is his advantage. Assuming it has already taught him everything is his vulnerability.
Three books · Read in order
What did Ishar never know to ask?
Deep Witness 01
The thing he trusted disappears.
Ishar trusts good equipment, skilled people, and the lessons of a very long life. When his halo disappears, the search begins to expose the assumptions beneath all three. A missing object is only the beginning of the question.
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Deep Witness 02
Being wealthy and having money are not the same thing.
His assets are restricted. His expenses are real. And Mattan, who manages his finances, has run out of patience with the difference. Six elite Continuity trainees give Ishar a chance to put his experience to work. They also give him six new reasons to question how much of the work should belong to him.
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Deep Witness 03
The answer exists. He is not allowed to read it.
To seek the answer, Ishar must consider a qualification that gives Continuity ten years to test whether he can survive it. Security, friendship, ordinary law, and an ancient dragon’s refuge become part of a life that cannot be reduced to passing the test.
Back to the trilogyOne world. A widening view.
Beyond Deep Witness
Deep Witness is only the beginning. More Ishar stories are in development.
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