A 100+ Book Series

The Victis
System

Elena Voss. Her floor. Her story.

A woman who has spent her life performing worthiness discovers that the floor was always there — and that the only thing standing between her and solid ground was the willingness to stop running long enough to feel it.

Book One

The Cost of Armor

How far do you have to fall before the spinning finally stops.

Book Two

The Phoenix Ledger

She found the floor. Then she lit it on fire.

Book Three

The Ledge

When the world makes you doubt you are enough, look within.

Book Four

The Reclaimed Day

Some days you stop performing and start standing.

Book Five

A Day at the Office

Leadership without the performance.

Book Six

The Move In

She brought the plant. She left the mask.

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Derek J. Perna

Derek J. Perna

Fiction that
doesn't flinch.

"I believe completely in what this story is trying to say. That you are enough. That the floor was always there."

Derek J. Perna writes fiction that doesn't flinch. After years of crafting romantic and fantasy novellas, he found his voice in the space where psychology meets raw honesty — stories about women who are done running from themselves.

The Victis System is his most personal work: a long-form series exploring what it actually costs to stop performing, face the things that broke you, and build a life on ground that holds. It doesn't offer easy answers. It offers something rarer — a floor.

He lives by the belief that true freedom isn't found in the absence of accountability, but in finally having someone worth being accountable to.