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NightForge After Dark — Dark Fantasy HaremLit Audio Fiction

S. A. Vale

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 7

He had one rule...never drink what you didn't pour. Then a priestess walked into his tent for a goddess's stolen veil, took off her silver crescents one by one...and stayed until dawn. When she left, the mark on his wrist had gone dark. In Carthage, even pleasure keeps a ledger.

NIGHTFORGE AFTER DARK is the companion show to The Carthage Cycle...grimdark historical fantasy set in the real Truceless War of 240 BC, when the richest city on earth refused to pay its own army.

Lore by firelight, myths of the two temples, readings from the dark.

The books live in Kindle Unlimited. The world you seek lives here.

🛡️ Read every book free before the world does: nightforgeafterdark.com/gatekeepers

18+. Epic worlds. Dangerous desire. Mind the dark.

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The Fire and the Moon | Why the Gods of Carthage Can Never Make Peace

Season 1 · Episode 7

Friday, September 11, 2026 • Duration 14:56

Why is the world cruel? Carthage does not answer with a fall or a mystery. It answers with an account: two gods running two incompatible businesses in one city, and mortals are the ledger they settle it in.

The deepest episode yet. Moloch, the fire that must consume to exist. Tanit, the moon that exists by never spending. Why their war cannot be reconciled...not a quarrel over the same thing, but a collision of opposite natures. How the fight is fought in the phases of the moon over your head. What it is to live as the coin two gods are trying to spend. And, at the end, the thing both priesthoods are paid to keep you from noticing about the moon that always, always comes back.

THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is live...free on Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VS

🛡️ Read every book free before the world does, by joining the ARC Team: nightforgeafterdark.com/gatekeepers

🌙 The moon keeps her own. Mind the dark.

GET BOOK #1 - THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE - ON AMAZON

Free on Kindle Unlimited

HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCAST
Drop into the world of Carthage. A new descent each Thursday, 8PM Eastern.

WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE LEDGER - ON PATREON
Walk the streets of Carthage. Bonus XXX chapters and experiences. Subscribe and enter your name on the roll of the Unpaid.

ENTER THE GATES - ON ROYAL ROAD
The city, the army, and the year it all came due. Get the Prologue free.

WALK THE CAMP - ON X
Dispatches, art, and the occasional atrocity.

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Content: violence, erotica, blood rites, disturbing imagery. 18+.

Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.

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The Council of the Hundred | Why Carthage Fears a Paid Army | The Jackal of Carthage (Book #1)

Season 1 · Episode 6

Friday, September 4, 2026 • Duration 18:10

What frightens the richest city on earth more than an unpaid army at its gates? A paid one.

Tonight: the Council of the Hundred...the hundred and four merchants who rule Carthage, how a seat is bought, what THE LEDGER BALANCES actually means behind a locked door, and the cold arithmetic that keeps ten thousand soldiers on a leash of owing. The kindly old man under the awning was not lying. That is the horror.

THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is live...free in Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VS

🛡️ Read every book free before the world does by joining our ARC team: https://nightforgeafterdark.com/gatekeepers

🌙 The moon keeps her own. Mind the dark.

GET BOOK #1 - THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE - ON AMAZON

Free on Kindle Unlimited

HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCAST
Drop into the world of Carthage. A new descent each Thursday, 8PM Eastern.

WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE LEDGER - ON PATREON
Walk the streets of Carthage. Bonus XXX chapters and experiences. Subscribe and enter your name on the roll of the Unpaid.

ENTER THE GATES - ON ROYAL ROAD
The city, the army, and the year it all came due. Get the Prologue free.

WALK THE CAMP - ON X

The Feast After the Feast | A Bonus Night in Megara Teaser (First Page Only) | The Jackal of Carthage (Book #1)

Season 1 · Episode 5

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 • Duration 10:25

While Carthage sleeps off the feast, a courtesan named Tiziri walks the wrecked garden of Megara pricing everything she sees...and finds one item the night forgot to price.

This is the first page of THE FEAST AFTER THE FEAST, a bonus night of The Carthage Cycle, read exactly as published. The rest...her rules, the whole trade, the dawn payment, and the broken temple seal she carries out of the cellar...lives behind the gate.

🏛️ The full 3,000-word night + four paintings of it: https://patreon.com/nightforgeafterdark

📖 The book this night falls inside, free in Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VS

🛡️ Every book free before the world - join our ARC team: https://nightforgeafterdark.com/gatekeepers

18+. Epic worlds. Dangerous desire. Mind the dark.

GET BOOK #1 - THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE - ON AMAZON

Free on Kindle Unlimited

HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCAST
Drop into the world of Carthage. A new descent each Thursday, 8PM Eastern.

WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE LEDGER - ON PATREON
Walk the streets of Carthage. Bonus XXX chapters and experiences. Subscribe and enter your name on the roll of the Unpaid.

ENTER THE GATES - ON ROYAL ROAD

The Coin That Cannot Be Shaved | Why the Gods of Carthage Are at War | The Jackal of Carthage

Season 1 · Episode 3

Saturday, August 29, 2026 • Duration 12:46

Look up...the moon is full tonight, and in Carthage that is a victory lap in a war older than the world.

This is the city's oldest story, told the way its grandmothers tell it...door barred, voice low. How one first light became two gods: the share that burns, and the share that shines.

Why Moloch shaves every coin he touches and cannot help it.

How Tanit forged the one coin he can never make lighter...and hung it over the harbor where he has to look at it.

What the fourteen nights of the moon actually are. And why a city that shaved its own soldiers' pay didn't just cheat an army...it insulted the one being in creation who takes the shaving of a coin personally.

Two gods. Two answers to the only question there is: spend it, or keep it. The people of Carthage live in the crossfire...and so does everyone in the books.

THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is live now, under her full moon...free in Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VS

🎧 New to the show? The Prologue is pinned as Episode 1, and the eight Iron Laws are Episode 2.

🛡️ Read every book free before the world does: nightforgeafterdark.com/gatekeepers

🌙 The moon keeps her own. Mind the dark.

GET BOOK #1 - THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE - ON AMAZON

Free on Kindle Unlimited

HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCAST
Drop into the world of Carthage. A new descent each Thursday, 8PM Eastern.

The Iron Laws | The Rules All Magic Obeys in Carthage | The Jackal of Carthage

Season 1 · Episode 2

Friday, August 21, 2026 • Duration 06:56

Every fantasy reader has been burned by magic that does whatever the plot needs. Carthage doesn't work like that.

In this episode: the eight Iron Laws — the immutable rules every spell, rite, and miracle in The Carthage Cycle obeys. Why all power is a loan from the gods. Why every working has a price, and why the price is rarely coin. What blood actually buys, what it costs the soul, and why the sky over Carthage is not scenery — it's a scoreboard.

Seven minutes. Eight laws. Check the receipts.

THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE launches Friday, August 28th, under the full moon — free on Kindle Unlimited. The series runs one book per full moon until it's done.

Want a free copy of Book 1? Sign up to be an ARC reader here: https://nightforgeafterdark.com

All we ask is that you leave us an honest review on www.Amazon.com

The moon keeps her own. Mind the dark.

GET BOOK #1 - THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE - ON AMAZON

Free on Kindle Unlimited

HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCAST
Drop into the world of Carthage. A new descent each Thursday, 8PM Eastern.

WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE LEDGER - ON PATREON
Walk the streets of Carthage. Bonus XXX chapters and experiences. Subscribe and enter your name on the roll of the Unpaid.

ENTER THE GATES - ON ROYAL ROAD

Prologue: The Fire in the Dark | Dark Historical Fantasy Audiobook | The Jackal of Carthage (Part I)

Season 1 · Episode 1

Friday, August 7, 2026 • Duration 26:03

Under a dark moon, on the shore below the richest city on earth, a rite buys three days of fire...and the price is counted in lives, exactly, a coin pressed into the earth over each one. The account is not closed. It is only kept.

This is the Prologue of THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE, read in full...the fire in the dark that lights a six-book war. If it leaves a mark, the whole book is waiting: free in Kindle Unlimited. [link]

🛡️ Free early books for honest reviews: nightforgeafterdark.com/gatekeepers

From THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE — Book One of The Carthage Cycle.

Written and narrated by S. A. Vale.

Content: graphic violence, blood ritual, on-page death. 18+.
Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.

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GET BOOK #1 - THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE - ON AMAZON

Free on Kindle Unlimited

HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCAST
Drop into the world of Carthage. A new descent each Thursday, 8PM Eastern.

WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE LEDGER - ON PATREON
Walk the streets of Carthage. Bonus XXX chapters and experiences. Subscribe and enter your name on the roll of the Unpaid.

ENTER THE GATES - ON ROYAL ROAD
The city, the army, and the year it all came due. Get the Prologue free.

The Jackal of Carthage | Dark Fantasy HaremLit Audiobook (Trailer)

Season 1 · Episode 1

Thursday, July 30, 2026 • Duration 01:08

Carthage owed its army a year's wages. And then refused to pay.

THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is a serialized dark historical fantasy set in 240 BC — the year the richest city on earth lost a war and refused to pay the men who fought it.

Kadmar has no house, no name worth having, and no illusions. He is one of ten thousand mercenaries Carthage priced at nothing, and he is the only man in the garden sober enough to see what that decision will cost.

There are gods in this story. They are real. And they charge for everything.

Written and narrated by S. A. Vale.

Book One of The Carthage Cycle.

Adults only.

Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.

GET BOOK #1 - THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE - ON AMAZON

Free on Kindle Unlimited

HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCAST
Drop into the world of Carthage. A new descent each Thursday, 8PM Eastern.

WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE LEDGER - ON PATREON
Walk the streets of Carthage. Bonus XXX chapters and experiences. Subscribe and enter your name on the roll of the Unpaid.

ENTER THE GATES - ON ROYAL ROAD
The city, the army, and the year it all came due. Get the Prologue free.

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