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Stories for every book reader
Charles J. Hierons crafts stories for booksreaders who appreciate the unexpected. Whether you're drawn to futuristic adventures, puzzling mysteries, or the raw emotion of poetry, there's something here for you. Dive in and discover your next favourite read. Charles J. Hierons, an author located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, has published:
1. Mind Play - Short stories, Poetry and Prose
2. The Light Between The Shadows - Book 1 of Gilgamesh
3. Beyond The Eclipse- Book 2 of Gilgamesh
4.Hornets of the Cosmos - Book 3 of Gilgamesh
5. The Third Lobe - Gilgarmesh Series, Continuation
6. The Eternal Blade - Gilgarmesh Series, END
7 Deep Death - Justin Blake Series Book 1
8 SHEPHERD Protocol - Justin Blake Series 2
9 THRESHOLD Protocol - Justin Blake Series 3
Left-hand Picture - Our Heroes
Ragot and Maeralya
Hero's from
Gilgamesh Series
Featured Trilogy: Justin Blake Series
Deep Death
SHERHERD Protocol
THRESHOLD Protocol
**Three hundred meters below the surface. One dead officer. No way out **
When Lieutenant Commander James Wearing is found dead aboard HMS VALOR, the Royal Navy's most advanced nuclear submarine, it's ruled an accident—a tragic electrical mishap during a routine patrol.
But Dr Blake, the boat's medical officer, knows better.
The burns are wrong. The timing is wrong. And as Blake begins to investigate, he discovers something far more dangerous than murder: HMS VALOR has been compromised. A sophisticated espionage network has infiltrated the submarine, stealing classified intelligence and transmitting it to an unknown enemy. The conspiracy reaches into the highest levels of the Admiralty—and the traitors are still aboard.
Trapped three hundred meters underwater with a crew of suspects, Blake must identify the killers before they can silence him. But in the claustrophobic depths of a nuclear submarine, everyone has secrets. The cook. The sonar chief. The steward. The navigator. Any of them could be SHEPHERD's operative. Any of them could strike next.
And when a hostile submarine begins tracking Valor through the North Atlantic, Blake realizes the conspiracy isn't just about espionage—it's about ensuring the boat never makes it home.
**A taut psychological thriller combining the tension of *The Hunt for Red October* with the paranoia of *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy*. Perfect for fans of Tom Clancy, John le Carré, and submarine warfare fiction.**
**No safe harbor. No reinforcements. No one to trust.**
SHEPHERD PROTOCOL
** Seventy-three seconds.
That's the interval. That's the pulse**
When intelligence officer Dr Justin Blake is assigned to investigate a classified incident aboard HMS Leviathan, he expects bureaucratic cover-ups and military secrets. What he finds instead is something ancient waiting in the deep—a consciousness that doesn't invade minds. It resonates with them.
As his submarine descends into darkness, Blake's crew begins to change. They bleed. They hear voices. They want to surrender. And somewhere in the abyss, something vast and beautiful is calling them home.
Blake knows the truth now: a hidden government has spent decades orchestrating humanity's merger with an alien intelligence. And the only person who might stop it is willing to die—or worse—to let it happen.
In the fathomless North Atlantic, there is no rescue. No escape. Only a choice between fighting for what makes us human or accepting something greater than we could ever understand.
**The pulse is coming. And it never stops counting**
THRESHOLD Protocol
** When survival means surrendering yourself, only grief can hold the line **
Beneath the Atlantic, Station Threshold hides a secret: an alien fragment pulsing with a rhythm that invades the mind. Seven integration attempts have ended in disaster—until Dr. Justin Blake, a man hollowed by grief, survives. His pain becomes the key to humanity’s last hope.
Blake is swept into a global race as governments and intelligence agencies vie to control the fragments, each seeking to weaponize the network. But the true threat is cosmic: Earth’s magnetic field is collapsing, and the fragments are awakening, offering a stark choice—integrate or perish.
As more people connect, the boundaries between self and collective blur. Minds dissolve, identities fragment, and the network’s pulse becomes a second heartbeat. Blake, uniquely able to anchor others, discovers that his grief is not a weakness but a structural strength—the load-bearing foundation that keeps others human within the network’s vast consciousness.
When a cosmic signal arrives, pressing against Earth’s defenses, the integrated must coordinate a planetary response. Sacrifices are inevitable: friends dissolve, boundaries are tested, and the cost of survival is measured in lives and memories. In the end, survival depends not on technology or violence, but on the willingness to bear the unbearable and hold the line against dissolution.
The Gilgamesh Trilogy - Jim and Millie Series
The Light Between the Shadows,
Shadow Beyond The Eclipse,
Hornets of the Cosmos
Charles J. Hierons has crafted something genuinely unique in contemporary fiction: a novel that takes the lived experience of PTSD, dissociation, and trauma survival seriously while simultaneously opening a door to wonder, magic, and transformative possibility. This isn't trauma tourism or inspiration porn—it's an honest, unflinching look at what it means to carry invisible wounds, told through a lens that asks radical questions about the nature of healing itself.
Jim's journey begins in a place many trauma survivors will recognize: the grey zone between functioning and falling apart. He goes through the motions—walks Millie, attends therapy sessions, maintains the appearance of coping—while internally fragmenting. His dissociative episodes are increasing in frequency and intensity. Time loses meaning. Reality feels negotiable. The boundary between past and present grows dangerously thin.
But where most narratives would frame this deterioration as purely pathological, Hierons introduces a provocative alternative: What if these episodes, these moments when Jim slips sideways out of consensus reality, aren't just symptoms? What if they're also a form of perception—a way of seeing into realms that exist beyond the veil of ordinary consciousness?
Enter Chaun, the leprechaun who becomes Jim's guide, companion, and eventually, friend. Freed from his wooden prison after centuries of captivity, Chaun recognizes in Jim something precious: a human whose trauma has opened doorways that most people never perceive. Jim can access the Otherworld, the realm of Faerie that exists in the spaces between moments, in the gaps where dissociation takes him.
And Chaun has a proposition: What if Jim's suffering could become purposeful? What if the very thing that's destroying him could be transformed into a tool for helping others?
Beyond The Eclipse
Jim never asked to be the bridge between dimensions. But when an apocalyptic threat emerges that neither world can face alone, he finds himself commanding a desperate alliance between Earth wizards and the elite warriors of Cyan—a civilization on the brink of total annihilation from an enemy that shouldn't exist.
The Anthill is a nightmare made flesh—a massive, organic facility that learns, adapts, and hunts with terrifying intelligence. It's consuming Cyan from the inside out, and if it reaches critical mass, the dimensional barrier will shatter. Earth will fall next.
The only solution: a suicide mission to infiltrate the structure, plant charges in its heart, and extract before everything explodes. But in a world where trust is already fragile, one operative is exposed as a saboteur—someone embedded deep in their ranks, compromising every decision, every strategy, every life.
Everything unravels in the blood and chaos of the assault.
Soldiers die in the dark. Heroes fall screaming. And Jim watches it all unfold from a command center, powerless to save them, forced to make impossible choices that will haunt him forever.
In the end, it's not about winning. It's about surviving. It's about what justice looks like when both worlds are burning and your people are counting on you to make the hard calls. It's about whether an alliance built on impossible sacrifices can hold together when the cost of victory is higher than anyone imagined.
A gripping military sci-fi thriller packed with tactical intensity, shocking twists, genuine emotional devastation, and the kind of character-driven storytelling that makes you care deeply about who lives and who doesn't. Perfect for fans of intricate worldbuilding, high-stakes operations with real consequences, and stories where heroes aren't always enough.
You won't be able to put this down.
The Trilogy -Gilgamesh
**When the cosmos trembles, ordinary people must become extraordinary.**
*Hornets of the Cosmos* concludes the epic trilogy of Jim and Millie—a seventy-something-year-old man and his dog-turned-warrior-companion—as they face an apocalyptic threat that endangers the entire Milky Way.
After their adventures in the Faerie realm and on the distant planet Gergen, Jim thought his involvement in cosmic-scale conflicts was finished. He was wrong. A new menace has emerged: creatures of ancient malevolence powerful enough to unravel the fabric of multiple worlds. The Hornets of the Cosmos don't just threaten Faerie or Earth—they threaten to consume everything.
To stand against this darkness, Jim must unite an impossible coalition of heroes. The Guardians bring their transcendent power. Ennegram5 contributes wisdom from dimensions humans can barely comprehend. The Cyan, beings of dark energy, must overcome centuries of isolation to fight alongside creatures of light. Shadow10, forged as an ally through conflict, returns to honor that bond. Alongside them stand the Pixies, Dwarves, Ice Gnomes, Orcs, and Fae of a hundred kingdoms. Even the Queen of Cyan makes a controversial choice: she opens her realm's ancient boundaries and arranges a union between Ragot, an Orc warrior, and Maeralya, a Fae guardian—a marriage that symbolizes the breaking down of age-old prejudices.
But unity comes at a cost. Ancient enemies must become allies. Sacred traditions must be questioned. And Jim faces increasingly dark moral choices: How far should one go to save the world? What price is acceptable? When victory demands becoming something monstrous, is it still worth winning?
The battle itself is devastating. Magic burns. Lives are lost. The very foundations of multiple realms shake. And when it finally ends, Jim realizes the true enemy wasn't always the monsters that threatened to destroy everything—sometimes it was desperation itself, sometimes it was the person willing to sacrifice anything for their vision of survival.
As the smoke clears, Jim understands something crucial: real heroism isn't about being the strongest or the most powerful. It's about choosing to ask questions instead of accepting easy answers. It's about building bridges instead of walls. It's about having the courage to stand beside those you once fought, and the humility to admit that you were wrong.
The ending, however, brings a bittersweet truth. The gate between worlds closes, and Jim must return to his ordinary mortal life—a world that has only experienced two days while he lived weeks in another realm. He's forever changed by his experience, yet unable to fully explain it to those around him. The extraordinary has been woven into his ordinary existence, creating a strange duality he must learn to navigate.
But Jim isn't truly alone. A mysterious warm coin in his pocket pulses with magic. Millie's presence reaches across impossible distances through dreams and gentle touches. And somewhere, in another realm, his allies remember him, honoring what he accomplished and the bonds they forged together.
*Hornets of the Cosmos* is a story about sacrifice and redemption, about the power of connection to transcend distance and circumstance, about what it means to be a hero in a universe far larger and stranger than you ever imagined. It's a love story stretched across worlds, a war epic with genuine consequences, and a meditation on what we carry with us when we leave the people and places we love most.
Perfect for readers who crave epic fantasy with emotional depth, narratives that embrace moral complexity, and stories where the ending transforms the characters rather than resolving everything neatly.