Power and Privilege

A lone man in a suit stands inside a glowing transparent cube in a rain-slick city plaza at night, surrounded by towering buildings and courthouse architecture while the bold title “POWER AND PRIVILEGE” looms above him.

Power and Privilege is a body of novels about people living under systems designed to preserve wealth and authority long after those systems cease to serve humanity. Spanning contemporary, near-future, and distant-future worlds, these stories examine the point at which legality separates from morality, procedure replaces conscience, and ordinary individuals are forced to confront structures that cannot admit they are wrong.

When power becomes law, privilege replaces integrity.
When integrity collapses, legality replaces morality.
When morality is abandoned, decency becomes weakness.

These novels trace the human cost of that descent. They are not stories about broken systems, but about systems working exactly as intended for those they were built to protect.

The strongest line in that whole definition is the ending:
They are not stories about broken systems, but about systems working exactly as intended for those they were built to protect.

POWER & PRIVILEGE // OPEN SERIES

When power becomes law, privilege replaces integrity.

A psychological thriller series about people living under systems designed to preserve wealth, status, authority, and institutional control long after those systems cease to serve humanity.

  1. The Vintner & The Novelist by Mark Bertrand book cover
    Book 01 Power & Privilege

    The Vintner & The Novelist

    Where Did the Story Go Missing?

    An American vintner in southern Spain is trapped between weather, debt, tax pressure, and the strange court that judges the book he thought he controlled. The vineyard does not save him. The story does not obey him. Power & Privilege begins where authorship, authority, pressure, and systemic judgment become impossible to separate.

  2. POWER & PRIVILEGE BOOK 02 MEMORIE$
    Book 02 Power & Privilege

    MEMORIE$

    Expected November 2026

    The next Power & Privilege novel turns memory into property, status into evidence, and personal history into something wealth believes it can buy, edit, and own.

    Coming November 2026
Next in the series MEMORIE$ is expected in November 2026.

Book Two keeps the series aimed at power, privilege, ownership, and the systems that decide which lives can be rewritten.

the vintner & the novelist book cover image

Book One of Power And Privilege