Padraig Riley

Ordinary people. Old debts. Places that remember.

The shelf

Books

Three series and a fourth thing I keep circling. Nobody in them is chosen or gifted.

The Keeping — a bell hung above a leaf-strewn trail descending through autumn woods

The Sourwood Books

The Keeping

The North Carolina mountains my family came from. A second series, and the one that keeps pulling me back.

In revision, copyedit next

Read Keeper’s Night, a free story from the same hollow

Pilot Light

Bad Paper — book one

Pilot Light

The Florida Keys, and a man paid to notice nothing who wrote it all down anyway.

In structural revision

Read the opening

Cover to come

Holdfast

Holdfast

Drafting. Characters, lore, places, and a spine that keeps moving while I work out what it’s actually about.

Debt of Peace, book one

Later

Thrillers

Classical thrillers

Same preoccupations, fewer impossible things. After the next two.

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