The Books
Sixteen nonfiction volumes. Eighty-five stories. Two novels. One encyclopedia.
Each with its own symbol. All from the same source.
Nonfiction · The Common Ground Project · How this was researched →
Book 1 · Coming 2026
The Ground Beneath
The foundation. Twenty-two principles across all 85 traditions.
Book 2 · In Development
Outside the Box
What the 85 traditions were actually describing. Philosophy and inquiry.
Book 3 · In Development
Time Will Tell
Stories illustrating the twenty-two principles across time.
Book 4 · Planned
The Common Knowledge
Engineering, astronomy, architecture, medicine documented across the 85 traditions.
Book 5 · Planned
From The Ground
Health, botanical healing, and medicine across the 85 traditions.
Book 6 · Planned
Dirt Beneath Them
Agricultural practices and the human relationship to land.
Book 7 · Planned
When The Walls Fell
How and why civilizations fell. The shared patterns of collapse.
Book 8 · Planned
What We Listened To
Music and sound across 50,000 years. Digital companion live now: Listen →
Book 9 · Planned
What We Ate
Food and ritual sustenance. The oldest recipe on earth is a beer hymn to a goddess.
Book 10 · Planned
The Common Trickster
The Trickster archetype across all 85 traditions, including excluded Abrahamic scrolls.
Book 11 · Planned
How We Fought
Wars, strategy, weapons, and martial philosophy across the 85 traditions.
Book 12 · Planned
How We Loved
Relationships, marriage, love, and family bonds across the 85 traditions.
Book 13 · Planned
The Common Family
Family structure, kinship systems, and children’s roles across the 85 traditions.
Book 14 · Planned
To The Ground
Death, burial, and afterlife. Most traditions document death as transition, not terminus.
Book 15 · Planned
The Quest Keepers
What the elders held and transmitted. How each tradition honored its wisdom keepers.
Book 16 · In Development
Glossary of Time
A per-culture encyclopedia. Every tradition: history, territory maps, cosmology, conflict, contemporary status, and cross-references to every relevant book. Critical thinking questions. Suitable for classrooms and independent study.
Fiction · The Emma Series & Companion Stories
The same universe. The same twenty-two principles. Lived — not explained — by characters who carry them without knowing what they carry.
Fiction · Book I
In the Shadow of the Wolf
A woman in her fifties researches her family’s genealogy in the Kentucky hills. What she finds has always been there. The principles are lived, not named.
In progress
Fiction · Book II · Teen & YA
Song Singers
Emma’s story. Same universe as In the Shadow of the Wolf — a younger voice, different questions, the TCG framework woven through a world she’s still learning to read.
In progress
Companion Stories · 3 Volumes
The Ground Beneath the Stories
Eighty-five short stories from within the 85 traditions. Told from the inside. Think Aesop. Think Grimm. But drawn from the actual source. Fifty-six written.
56 of 85 written