Commonwealth of Shadows

By Jasper Fielding

1066 went differently. England never became Norman.
The island stayed stubbornly Anglish, bound by an oath older than crowns: No man or householder shall be yoked.

In 2025, that oath is about to be tested.

A Sea-Warden is killed on a North Sea turbine during a storm - and the final ping from his harness carries a single clue: a blurred image of an unauthorised device clamped to the grid's fibre conduit.

Kade lfson is the man sent to make sense of the death.
Brynja Hadley is the woman determined to make sure it isn't "resolved" by the wrong people.

Together they pull at a thread that leads from storm-lit steel in the North Sea to polished corridors in Lunden - where old institutions have learned new methods, and freedom is treated like a technicality.

A political conspiracy. A noir investigation. An alternate England with real stakes.
If the oath breaks, it won't be with a battle.
It'll be with paperwork, power, and a perfectly legal yoke.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G49YS3PZ
• ISBN13: 9798275615883
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"