About Alden

Alden Coombs writes adult historical thrillers. Book One of the Protector Series is underway now — a story about an inherited healing gift, a secret order sworn to guard it, and the real, threatened land in south Louisiana it all comes from.

This site carries the world around that book: serialized backstory, historical essays, and dispatches from the real history behind the myth — the founding of a secret order in the 1750s, a real missionary who wouldn't leave his parish, the true, unresolved story of a pirate whose name still echoes across the Gulf Coast. None of it spoils the novel.