Ghost Emperor

Volume One in the Ashes of Empire Saga

By: Douglas Stuart McDaniel

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Paperback | 18 November 2025

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When Alexander the Great's body began to rot, so did the world that believed in him. The empire did not fall; it dissolved-from loyalty into appetite, from divinity into rumor. Babylon became a crucible where ambition, grief, and faith melted together and could no longer be separated.

Ashes of Empire: Ghost Emperor is the first volume in a cycle that follows that dissolution. It inhabits the moment when generals became kings, widows became conspirators, and every act of devotion turned violent. The body of the god-king is both relic and weapon; the struggle to bury him is the struggle to define what remains of humanity.

This is not historical reconstruction. It is myth under autopsy-a study of how civilizations die and what stories they invent to feel immortal. Every scene, every betrayal, is drawn from the record but rendered as fever dream: grief made policy, ritual made war.

History ends here not with prophecy but with echo-a sound of empires learning how to beg for meaning.

Ghost Emperor is that echo, caught in fire.

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"Ghost Emperor is the kind of story that reminds us why we tell stories in the first place - to wrestle with ambition, mortality, and the cost of legacy. McDaniel captures the collapse of an empire with a filmmaker's eye and a historian's precision. Every scene feels lived-in, every choice haunted by consequence. It's a masterpiece of scope and restraint - intimate and immense all at once."

-Judd Payne, President of Intelligent Design Agency (IDEA);

Film and Television Producer at The Hideaway Entertainment

(Cherry, Bernie, Mile 22, Southland Tales)

"Ghost Emperor reads like an excavation of memory and power - a story that feels both ancient and unnervingly modern. McDaniel doesn't just reconstruct history; he animates it with the precision of a filmmaker and the soul of a philosopher. The world and story ecologies he builds are vivid, brutal, and beautiful - a mirror held up to every age that rises and falls on ambition."

- Olivier Pron, Award-winning Visual Futurist,

Concept Artist, and Art Director.

(Doctor Strange, Jupiter Ascending, Harry Potter, Guardians of the Galaxy)

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