“I was used to eating alone…”

High school sophomore Nate Charters is barely making it. His unusual appearance, hair-trigger nervous system, and over-active metabolism marked him as a target for the jocks and cool kids long ago, and it’s not getting any better.

Then, on Declaration Day, Nate is astounded as anyone by the existence of metahumans, and their audacious demand for autonomy… but there’s also the continued unwelcome attention of his most annoying rival to deal with… and is a self-assured older girl really interested in someone like him?

To top it off, who is the mysterious Dr. Brenhurst, and what’s his connection with Nate’s long-dead father?

Life just got insanely complicated. It’s time for Nate to solve the mystery of his origin and find his place in a world of mounting uncertainty and peril.

Is he part of a powerful new minority? Or just a misfit among misfits? He’d better find his answers quickly. A shadowy organization seems to know more about him than he could ever imagine. And they’re closing in…

Brave Men Run is the Parsec Award nominated fan favorite  that helped change the indie publishing landscape as the first novel in history released simultaneously in print, e-book, and podcast editions. Find out why tens of thousands all over the world have been Team Nate for two decades!

What You Get

• E-Book: an industry standard EPUB file compatible with all e-book apps and devices, including the Amazon Kindle. All of my digital products are free of DRM (digital rights management) restrictions. You are free to use the EPUB file on any of your personal devices. 

About the Sovereign Era

The Sovereign Era is my ongoing alternate history series presenting a mosaic of novels and stories detailing how the presence of super-humans changed the last decades of the twentieth century and the future of humanity.

The Sovereign Era Reading Order (So Far)

0. Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started”
1. Brave Men Run
2. “The World Revolves Around You”
3. The Sovereign Era: Year One
4. “Canary In a Coal Mine”
5. Pilgrimage
6. “The News from Bewilder Pond”

About the Expanded Edition

This revised, expanded edition of Brave Men Run is definitive. It replaces the “orange” edition and the Swarm Press “green” edition. Make sure you’ve got the right story! About 65,000 words.