Stories drawn from a documented genealogical line stretching from Anglo-Saxon Mercia through the founding of early America to the present day. The record did not keep their names. The novels do.
A documented family line. Eleven hundred years. Three women the record chose to forget. One coin that survived them all.
Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great, governed Mercia alone from 911 to 918 AD. She built the network of fortified towns that became England's cities. The record wrote around her name. This novel inhabits the silence.
Available NowThe same bloodline. A different century. A woman at the centre of power whose name the official record preferred not to keep. The coin moves forward in time.
ForthcomingThe present day. A genealogy researcher clicks through green leaves on a family tree, three generations back, not yet knowing what she is approaching. The chain arrives.
Forthcoming"England, as it exists today, rests on what Æthelflæd built.
Her name is not on it. It never was."
At 2:47 AM on a Tuesday in March, a portfolio analyst sends an email he has spent three weeks deciding to send. Three days later he is missing. SEC Detective Sarah Reeves steps off the elevator on the forty-third floor of one of Manhattan's most powerful hedge funds and into a conspiracy that traces back eleven hundred years.
A financial conspiracy thriller rooted in the same genealogical line as The Bloodline Trilogy. Power, erasure, and the things institutions bury when the record becomes inconvenient.
Book One — Available May 2026G.W. Parke is a pen name built from several years of verified genealogical research connecting a documented family line from Anglo-Saxon Mercia through the founding families of early America to the present day. The Bloodline Trilogy and The Margin of Death Series are not invented on top of history. They are built from inside it.
By profession, an educator — fourteen years teaching at community college level, currently teaching Career and Technical Education at high school level. An active trader with extensive experience in options, swing trading, and The Wheel strategy, whose non-fiction work on trading appears under the name Jeff Qualls.
Writing fiction is what happens when the research accumulates past the point where non-fiction can hold it. The novels are the attempt to inhabit the lives of the people the official record chose not to preserve.
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