The Archivist's Keeper
An archivist wakes something beneath the ice that is very good at helping.
Continuing Press · Fantasy in an ever-growing shared world
Stories That
Continue.
Standalone novels.
One world that keeps growing.
Read in any order. Meet new protagonists, recognise familiar faces, and watch places, institutions and consequences echo across stories.
See how the connected world works →
The first five stories are only the beginning.
Anyreading order
Deepoptional connections
Morestories still to come
First-edition coverThe first Continuing Press release
The scales lie.
The ledgers agree.
And in Hearthollow, that makes injustice law.
When a masked outlaw begins stealing back what Lord Draeven has taken, seventeen-year-old Cricket sees something the village does not: even a saviour can become another reason to wait. As resistance spreads, the two must turn one person's defiance into something a whole valley can carry.
Adult fantasyMasked outlawRebellionCollective action
The opening shelf
Five stories so far. Not five stories total.
Every novel gives you a complete journey. Read further and the connections can grow deeper: familiar characters may return, institutions travel, legends gain new meaning and consequences become somebody else's history.
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Outline
The Cloaked Saviour
A masked outlaw, a false ledger and a valley learning to stop waiting.
Explore →The Engineer's Last Run
An old engine, a runaway and the journey nobody expected to happen again.
The Forgotten Crossing
A disgraced captain sails toward the part of the map everyone calls a myth.
Only One Berth
Five days, one crowded vessel and a recovery agent trapped with her quarry.
The Continuing
Connections without homework.
The world can become richer, stranger and more interconnected for returning readers without ever locking a new reader outside the door.
Start anywhere.
Every book introduces the people and context its own story needs. No prerequisite novel, recap or reading-order chart required.
The connections can go deep.
Names, objects, institutions, historical events and choices can echo across books. Recognising them adds meaning, but never basic comprehension.
Familiar faces can return.
A character you met elsewhere may appear again, sometimes briefly and sometimes centrally. This book still tells you who they are now.
The shelf keeps growing.
These five titles are the opening stretch of a much larger catalogue, with new places, new voices and new connections still ahead.
One world, many lifetimes
The map is larger than any one plot.
Ports, keeps, machines, archives, bureaucracies, legends and old marks recur because the world keeps moving when the viewpoint changes. Sometimes a story reveals that something you once heard as folklore was real all along.
The author
Guus Kooij
Guus Kooij is a Dutch fantasy author from Arnhem and the founder of Continuing Press. He writes complete stories inside an ever-growing shared world, with a particular interest in ordinary people facing systems much larger than themselves.
He likes stories where competence matters, consequences remain visible and a victory changes more than who is standing at the end.
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