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.
Five novels. One thousand years. The women the record chose to forget. The same coin. The same document. The same chain of custody — passed from hand to hand through women whose names were not in the records they kept.
Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great. She built England. The network of fortified burhs that became England's cities. She governed Mercia alone from 911 to 918 AD. The record wrote around her name. This novel inhabits the silence.
In Submission to UK Literary AgentsÆlfwynn — Æthelflæd's daughter, confirmed Lady of the Mercians and erased from the record within months — is the subject of Book Two of The Saxon Chronicles. Her story is the reason the series exists.
Ælfwynn, Lady of the Mercians. Confirmed by the Witan. Removed within months. The record does not say where she went.
ForthcomingThe king Æthelflæd built. The unification of England. 924–954 AD. England named at last.
ForthcomingAlfred in the marsh. The decision that made everything after possible. Told in two movements — father and daughter.
ForthcomingJoan Parke at Henry VIII's court. 1526–1533 AD. A document moving through dangerous hands. An argument six hundred years in the making. The same coin. The chain does not break.
Complete — 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.
G.W. Parke is a pen name drawn from verified genealogical research connecting a documented family line from Anglo-Saxon Mercia through the founding families of early America to the present day. The Parkes family line connects through documented ancestry to Æthelflæd of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Robert the Bruce, Anne Boleyn, and Diana Frances Spencer, among others. The connection to Alfred runs through two independent verified lines. All primary connections are documented through FamilySearch and Ancestry.com. The pen name is the thesis of the series on every cover.
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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The same person who writes historical fiction about Æthelflæd has spent years as an active trader in options, swing trading, and The Wheel strategy. That work appears under the name Jeff Qualls — non-fiction books, trading scripts, and resources for independent traders who do their own thinking.
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