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The Mon Brave Series

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Constantinople — Mon Brave

One maps the world in iron and logic. One triggers the spark. One rules the shadows in the heart of the Ottoman Empire...

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Book 2 — Constantinople:
The Tangled Mess

The ledger continues in 1802. Clinical logic is pushed to its absolute limits as a high-stakes game of espionage twists into unmapped territory...

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The Alignment Trilogy

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Book 1 — The Journey

He didn't travel to the past. He was fractured by it. A man collapses in modern England and awakens in 1814...

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Book 2 — Livia

Before she pulled the trigger, she had to be forged by history. Spanning sixteen turbulent years across seven sweeping acts...

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Book 3 — The True Alignment

The pieces are shifting. The clock is ticking. The past and the present are finally locking into place in the year 2000...

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Echoes Beneath the Tide

A deeply personal collection of poems exploring longing, isolation, love, memory, and the quiet search for meaning...

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Read two poems from Echoes Beneath the Tide—a glimpse into its exploration of darkness, light, identity and devotion.

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People come and go; Through the fear of the shadow, They lose their glow. It was the contrast of a blank white page And the dark ink that told the story. It was the bottomless pit of the void That pulled to the light and all its glory. I stood, a man deceived by none; A spirit echoing in the darkness of mine eyes. Her light, the canvas of creation The merging of the two, the ultimate prize. People came and went; Through the fear of the darkness, Their light was spent.

Somehow Not Real

Somehow not real; but the birds still sing. In the winter gloom I dream of spring. Somehow not real; a hangman’s noose. I stand here tried; no cutting loose. Somehow not real; these tears I cry. My spirit lost, my life a lie. Somehow not real; a single rose. Inside burnt and outside froze. Somehow not real; such a peaceful view. Upon my grave “I died for you”

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BOOK 1 — THE JOURNEY: SOMEHOW NOT REAL

He didn't travel to the past. He was fractured by it.

A man collapses in modern-day England and awakens naked, freezing, and entirely alone in the rain-slicked fields of 1814.

As he walks toward a looming French chateau, his 21st-century identity begins to bleed away. The modern world dissolves like a fever dream, replaced by the sudden, overwhelming reality of a life he didn't know he owned. By the time he steps through the gates, he is no longer Jack. He is Captain Jacques Morel of the French army.

Thrust into a world shaped by war, duty, and quiet danger, Jacques steps into a life already in motion. He must navigate a wife who expects him, a household that depends on him, and a high-stakes mission across enemy lines where a single mistake means death.

Yet, beneath the surface of his military life, something lingers. Faint, unsettling echoes of names, faces, and lives that shouldn't exist whisper at the boundaries of his mind. The terrifying truth isn't that he is a stranger in 1814... it's that his mind is fracturing under the weight of who he truly is.

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THE JOURNEY — CARTOGRAPHICAL DATA RECORDS (1814)

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BOOK 2 — LIVIA: THE MIRROR EFFECT

Before she pulled the trigger, she had to be forged by history.

To the modern mind of Jack, she was a stranger in 1814—a wife who expected him, a keeper of dangerous secrets, and the woman who ultimately shattered his reality. But Livia was not born a soldier's undoing. She was made.

Spanning sixteen turbulent years from 1799 to 1815, across seven sweeping acts, this is Livia’s truth. Shaped by the heavy legacy of her parents, her childhood, and an era consumed by the Napoleonic Wars, she learns early that survival requires absolute ruthlessness.

When her path collides with Captain Jacques Morel in Act 3, the pieces of a massive, multi-layered puzzle begin to fracture. As their real, inescapable connection is unearthed, a terrifying truth begins to surface: the memories that haunted the past were an illusion. The history Jack thought he knew was wrong. And the bond between Jacques and Livia runs deeper, darker, and more vital than anyone could have guessed.

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LIVIA — CHRONICLE ILLUSTRATION RECORD (ACT III: BERLIN)

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BOOK 3 — THE TRUE ALIGNMENT

The pieces are shifting. The clock is ticking. The past and the present are finally locking into place.

For Jack Moreton, the year 2000 opens not with a new beginning, but with a lingering echo. Sitting in a quiet London café with the Racing Post in hand, his instincts are sharp, his bets are hitting, but a strange, low-frequency static is humming in his mind. He is a man moving through a life that feels entirely too familiar, haunted by intense dreams of frozen battlefields, flashing silver pistols, and a woman whose face he has never seen—but whose voice he would follow to hell and back.

Enter Lacy Andrews. A sharp, clinical private investigator, Lacy relies on hard data, tight schedules, and complete professional detachment to track her targets. But when an active foot-surveillance detail leads her to follow a target straight into a Victoria casino, the routine assignment shatters completely. She isn't just looking for a name anymore; she needs to know exactly who this man is and what he's pulling her into.

Standing back-to-back against the shadows of a dangerous corporate conspiracy, Jack and Lacy's connection is immediate, magnetic, and completely terrifying. From the high-security townhouses of West London to the mist-shrouded corridors of a grand stone chateau in Rouen, France, every step they take unearths a trail of curated secrets. When a centuries-old astronomical timepiece surfaces in an elite collector's web, the terrifying final truth begins to align.

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THE TRUE ALIGNMENT — HISTORICAL ARTIFACT RECORDS

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CONSTANTINOPLE — MON BRAVE (SERIES BOOK 1)

One maps the world in iron and logic. One triggers the spark. One rules the shadows.

Matthieu Delacroix is a man built of iron and ash, a veteran of Napoleon’s Italian campaign who survives by turning the chaos of the world into a clinical ledger. Sent to the French Legation in Constantinople to map the ancient city as a quiet consular clerk, his rigid routine is shattered by a ghost in a silk dress.

Alizée is "the Breeze"—a lethal French intelligence asset who doesn't leave an ink-mark on a gate-log but can alter the course of a fleet. When she drags Matthieu into a high-stakes game of forgery and espionage, their calculations lead them straight into the path of Roxelana, the beautiful and fiercely possessive merchant queen of the Stamboul waterfront.

Bound together by a web of counterfeit currency, British mercenaries, and a conspiracy that reaches the highest palaces of the Ottoman Empire, this mismatched trio must navigate a treacherous trail from the crowded markets of the capital to the spectacular white terraces of Pamukkale.

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CONSTANTINOPLE — MON BRAVE: FULL COVER

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CONSTANTINOPLE — MON BRAVE: HISTORICAL ESPIONAGE

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CONSTANTINOPLE — MON BRAVE: THE MAP OF DUST

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BOOK 2 — CONSTANTINOPLE: THE TANGLED MESS

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The ledger continues in 1802 as Matthieu, Alizée and Roxelana are drawn into a new tangled web of espionage, rivalry and danger.

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ECHOES BENEATH THE TIDE

Echoes Beneath the Tide is a deeply personal collection of poems exploring longing, isolation, love, memory, identity, and the quiet search for meaning beneath the surface of everyday life.

Written across different periods of the author’s life, these poems blend dreamlike imagery with emotional honesty, drawing upon recurring themes of the moon, the ocean, fractured identity, romance, spirituality, regret, and hope.

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THE JOURNEY: FULL COVER

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Leigh Q Wade is an independent British author and poet dedicated to exploring the complex boundaries of identity, memory, and human connection. Specializing in dark, atmospheric speculative historical fiction and deeply personal psychological suspense, Leigh crafts intricate multi-layered narratives where the echoes of the past inevitably collide with the present.

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