NightForge After Dark — Dark Fantasy HaremLit Audio Fiction

The Iron Laws | The Rules All Magic Obeys in Carthage | The Jackal of Carthage

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:00:00 -0400

Every fantasy reader has been burned by magic that does whatever the plot needs. Carthage doesn't work like that.

In this episode: the eight Iron Laws — the immutable rules every spell, rite, and miracle in The Carthage Cycle obeys. Why all power is a loan from the gods. Why every working has a price, and why the price is rarely coin. What blood actually buys, what it costs the soul, and why the sky over Carthage is not scenery — it's a scoreboard.

Seven minutes. Eight laws. Check the receipts.

THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE launches Friday, August 28th, under the full moon — free on Kindle Unlimited. The series runs one book per full moon until it's done.

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The moon keeps her own. Mind the dark.

ENTER THE GATES - ON ROYAL ROAD
The city, the army, and the year it all came due. Free.

HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCAST
Every word read aloud. A new descent each Thursday, 8PM Eastern.

WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE LEDGER - ON PATREON
Walk a week ahead of the streets. Bonus chapters and experiences. Your name on the roll of the Unpaid.

SEE IT BURN - ON YOUTUBE
Painted plates, trailers, and the war in motion.

WALK THE CAMP - ON X
Dispatches, art, and the occasional atrocity. Daily.

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Content: violence, blood rites, disturbing imagery. 18+.

Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.

Prologue: The Fire in the Dark | Dark Historical Fantasy Audiobook | The Jackal of Carthage (Part I)

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:00:00 -0400

Dark historical fantasy haremlit audiobook, the lore, the myths, the magic and the harem behind the story — ancient Carthage, 240 BC.

A grimdark historical fantasy series for listeners who want the war, the gods and the price, all of it uncensored and on the page.

Three weeks east of Carthage, a tax clerk named Ashur cannot make his column close. Forty silver shat are missing from a sealed caravan. The hired guide eats nothing, drinks only from his own skin, and works ash into every crease of his shaved skull every night with the patience of a man paying an installment.

Tonight the guide must work faster...

What Ashur watches from the bottom of a dry cistern is a forbidden rite that was never licensed, performed on a man who begs in three languages. What he finds at dawn is a ring of fused glass, eight Carthaginian coins pressed into the ash like a debt paid to the earth, and three human shadows burned into living grass.

There should have been four.

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From THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE — Book One of The Carthage Cycle.

Written and narrated by S. A. Vale.

Content: graphic violence, blood ritual, on-page death. 18+. Nothing happens off the page.

Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.

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ENTER THE GATES - ON ROYAL ROAD
The city, the army, and the year it all came due. Free.

HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCAST
Every word read aloud. A new descent each Thursday, 8PM Eastern.

WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE LEDGER - ON PATREON
Walk a week ahead of the streets. Bonus chapters and experiences. Your name on the roll of the Unpaid.

SEE IT BURN - ON YOUTUBE
Painted plates, trailers, and the war in motion.

WALK THE CAMP - ON X
Dispatches, art, and the occasional atrocity. Daily.

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Content: violence, blood rites, disturbing imagery. 18+.

Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.

The Jackal of Carthage | Dark Fantasy HaremLit Audiobook (Trailer)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:00:00 -0400

Carthage owed its army a year's wages. And then refused to pay.

THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is a serialized dark historical fantasy set in 240 BC — the year the richest city on earth lost a war and refused to pay the men who fought it.

Kadmar has no house, no name worth having, and no illusions. He is one of ten thousand mercenaries Carthage priced at nothing, and he is the only man in the garden sober enough to see what that decision will cost.

There are gods in this story. They are real. And they charge for everything.

Written and narrated by S. A. Vale.

Book One of The Carthage Cycle.

Adults only.

Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.

ENTER THE GATES - ON ROYAL ROAD
The city, the army, and the year it all came due. Free.

HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCAST
Every word read aloud. A new descent each Thursday, 8PM Eastern.

WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE LEDGER - ON PATREON
Walk a week ahead of the streets. Bonus chapters and experiences. Your name on the roll of the Unpaid.

SEE IT BURN - ON YOUTUBE
Painted plates, trailers, and the war in motion.

WALK THE CAMP - ON X
Dispatches, art, and the occasional atrocity. Daily.

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Content: violence, blood rites, disturbing imagery. 18+.

Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.