Author: D. L. Denham

D. L. Denham created the Hegemon Wars sequence in a harsh future shaped by environmental collapse and competing settlements. Red Denver is the introductory short story, presenting Reho as a guarded antihero forced into a public arena after his past brings him before local authority. The compact narrative establishes the post-apocalyptic setting, the Red Rocks venue, and the mixture of engineered creatures, advanced machinery, and frontier-style power that carries into the longer novel Reho. Both works appeared in 2014, with Red Denver functioning as the first published entry and Reho as the second Hegemon Wars title. Bibliographic listings identify the pair as Denham's principal published series. Red Denver is therefore best read as a concentrated opening to a larger world rather than an isolated episode. It sketches Reho's capacity for survival, the social order surrounding him, and the conflicts that the subsequent novel develops at broader scale.