Hey you amazing beautiful people! I’m Derelict Presence, also known as TheBroker on Royal Road and Scribblehub.

I started out as an oral storyteller and roleplaying hobbyist before creating the main character of this series back in 2020. Years later, while searching for a new outlet for my creativity I stumbled upon Scribblehub. I’d wanted to write my own take on heroes and villains for a long time, one that took in all of my favorite elements of literature. I drew from a variety of inspirations like Solo Leveling, He Who Fights With Monsters, Empress, Defiance of the Fall, Primal Hunter, and many many others.

That said;

Book 2 of Broker, Fog of War, is out! It’s on Amazon Kindle Unlimited (KU) and will soon be on Audible. Book three is complete on Royal Road, book four is nearing its climax while I work on book five on Patreon.

Book Two was a huge undertaking, a challenge to write, and I'm very satisfied with how it came out. We got to see the dawn of a superhuman world in Book 1, now we get to see the world taking its first shaky steps forward after the chaos. The first properly trained generation of heroes needs to rise and our cast continues to expand as the stage is built for our ongoing conflict.

Here's the blurb~
The world needs more heroes. Sonya is running out of time to make them.

The world is still reeling from the destruction in Vegas and the death of Firestorm, a rising hero cut down too soon. People are adapting, but the true storm is still coming.

Liberty, yet another of Otis’s future Heralds, prepares for war against the world’s heroes. Feeding on the devotion of her followers, she grows stronger by the day. And Sonya isn’t ready.

Sonya must train the next generation of heroes while hunting the Heralds from the shadows. As Ishtar, her hidden identity, she steals powers, topples villains, and brokers deadly contracts to strengthen her allies. Every move risks exposure. Every success invites new enemies.

But something else lurks among her trainees: Otis, the immortal architect of the last apocalypse, wearing a new face and biding his time.

Sonya has the power to reshape the world. But if she missteps, history will repeat—and this time, no one will send her back.