Leigh Q Wade




THE ALIGNMENT TRILOGY

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BOOK 1 — THE JOURNEY: SOMEHOW NOT REAL

He didn't travel to the past. He was fractured by it.

A man collapses in modern-day England and awakens naked, freezing, and entirely alone in the rain-slicked fields of 1814.

As he walks toward a looming French chateau, his 21st-century identity begins to bleed away. The modern world dissolves like a fever dream, replaced by the sudden, overwhelming reality of a life he didn't know he owned. By the time he steps through the gates, he is no longer Jack. He is Captain Jacques Morel of the French army.

Thrust into a world shaped by war, duty, and quiet danger, Jacques steps into a life already in motion. He must navigate a wife who expects him, a household that depends on him, and a high-stakes mission across enemy lines where a single mistake means death.

Yet, beneath the surface of his military life, something lingers. Faint, unsettling echoes of names, faces, and lives that shouldn't exist whisper at the boundaries of his mind. The terrifying truth isn't that he is a stranger in 1814... it's that his mind is fracturing under the weight of who he truly is.

The Journey: Somehow Not Real is the gripping first installment of The Alignment Trilogy—a deep, atmospheric exploration of identity, memory, and the haunting fragmentation of a soul.



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BOOK 2 — LIVIA: THE MIRROR EFFECT

Before she pulled the trigger, she had to be forged by history.

To the modern mind of Jack, she was a stranger in 1814—a wife who expected him, a keeper of dangerous secrets, and the woman who ultimately shattered his reality. But Livia was not born a soldier's undoing. She was made.

Spanning sixteen turbulent years from 1799 to 1815, across seven sweeping acts, this is Livia’s truth. Shaped by the heavy legacy of her parents, her childhood, and an era consumed by the Napoleonic Wars, she learns early that survival requires absolute ruthlessness.

When her path collides with Captain Jacques Morel in Act 3, the pieces of a massive, multi-layered puzzle begin to fracture. As their real, inescapable connection is unearthed, a terrifying truth begins to surface: the memories that haunted the past were an illusion. The history Jack thought he knew was wrong. And the bond between Jacques and Livia runs deeper, darker, and more vital than anyone could have guessed.

Livia: The Mirror Effect is a monumental, sweeping speculative historical epic. An atmospheric psychological thriller that shifts the lens to the woman at the center of the storm, bridging the gap between a forgotten life and the ultimate correction.



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BOOK 3 — THE TRUE ALIGNMENT

The pieces are shifting. The clock is ticking. The past and the present are finally locking into place.

For Jack Moreton, the year 2000 opens not with a new beginning, but with a lingering echo. Sitting in a quiet London café with the Racing Post in hand, his instincts are sharp, his bets are hitting, but a strange, low-frequency static is humming in his mind. He is a man moving through a life that feels entirely too familiar, haunted by intense dreams of frozen battlefields, flashing silver pistols, and a woman whose face he has never seen—but whose voice he would follow to hell and back.

Enter Lacy Andrews. A sharp, clinical private investigator, Lacy relies on hard data, tight schedules, and complete professional detachment to track her targets. But when an active foot-surveillance detail leads her to follow a target straight into a Victoria casino, the routine assignment shatters completely. She isn't just looking for a name anymore; she needs to know exactly who this man is and what he's pulling her into.

Standing back-to-back against the shadows of a dangerous corporate conspiracy, Jack and Lacy's connection is immediate, magnetic, and completely terrifying. From the high-security townhouses of West London to the mist-shrouded corridors of a grand stone chateau in Rouen, France, every step they take unearths a trail of curated secrets. When a centuries-old astronomical timepiece surfaces in an elite collector's web, the terrifying final truth begins to align.

They aren’t just solving a modern crime. They are completing a historical circuit. As the static in Jack’s mind hits a defining frequency and the ghosts of the past break into the light, Jack and Lacy must risk everything to rewrite the final script—before the cycle claims them both.

The True Alignment is the explosive, deeply moving final installment of The Alignment Trilogy. Bringing centuries of human connection, psychological suspense, and speculative mystery to a definitive end, it is the sweeping conclusion to the story that began in The Journey - Somehow Not Real and expanded in Livia - The Mirror Effect.



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ECHOES BENEATH THE TIDE

Echoes Beneath the Tide is a deeply personal collection of poems exploring longing, isolation, love, memory, identity, and the quiet search for meaning beneath the surface of everyday life.

Written across different periods of the author’s life, these poems blend dreamlike imagery with emotional honesty, drawing upon recurring themes of the moon, the ocean, fractured identity, romance, spirituality, regret, and hope. Some pieces emerged from moments of darkness and introspection, while others reflect imagination, healing, and the desire for connection in an uncertain world.

Combining reflective poetry with personal author’s notes, this collection offers an intimate journey through emotion, memory, and self-discovery — where echoes from the past continue to move quietly beneath the tide.

For readers drawn to atmospheric, introspective, and emotionally driven poetry.



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