The Thorne Report #1
Volume 1, Issue 1
✦ Welcome
You’ve found your way into the first edition of The Thorne Report. Think of this as your private dispatch from House of Thorne — a space where stories smolder, secrets slip through, and you’re given just enough to leave you wanting more.
This newsletter will serve as your guide: updates on upcoming installments, behind-the-scenes glimpses, subscriber notes, and the occasional spark of something extra. Consider this your inside track.
✦ Upcoming Installments*
The next few weeks promise heat, heart, and a little danger. Mark your calendars:
- The Ides of March, Part IV: “Quiet Confessions” — September 5
- High Altitude, Part IV: “Breaking Point” — September 6
- The Quarterback, Part V: “The Fallout” — September 10
- Critical Mass, Part III: “Into the Void” — September 11
Each story builds on the last, carrying you deeper into the fire.
*dates are based on Early Access release schedule
✦ Subscriber Updates
We’ve crossed our first milestone together — and I want to thank each of you for stepping into this world with me. Every read, every share, every whisper passed along keeps the embers glowing.
If you’re reading this as a free subscriber, know that there are rewards waiting behind the curtain—including bonus content and early access. Paid subscribers, your loyalty keeps the House of Thorne standing.
So far this month we’ve welcomed 2 new paid subscribers to our ranks and the month just started!
✦ Upcoming Projects
Here’s what’s smoldering just beyond the horizon:
A Special Crossover Event — A collaboration with another fan-favorite Substack writer. Two worlds. One fire.
Subscriber Contest — Your chance to win special perks. Details soon.
The Second Interview — Deeper. Rawer. A personal conversation that cuts into the marrow of my story — and my sexual journey.
New Stories — Four fresh stories in the works:
Greatest Hits
Firewall
The Last Flight Out
Muscle Memory
Milestone Event — 300 subscribers. When we get there, expect a celebration worthy of the heat we’ve built together.
✦ Special Note:
A Note on Beginnings
Every fire begins with a spark. Sometimes it’s fierce and immediate—a flash that devours the dark in a single breath. Other times it’s quieter. A glance held longer than it should be. A word spoken softer than intended.
I have long been fascinated by those beginnings. They are never as orderly as we imagine. They stumble, they hesitate, they pull us forward before we are ready. And yet, it is in their imperfection that the true heat lives. The tension before the first touch. The pause before surrender. The ember that dares to catch.
The Thorne Report is itself such a beginning. It will be a ledger of moments—stories that smolder, fragments that linger, dispatches from the House of Thorne that could not live anywhere else. Some will be reflective, others playful, all carrying the weight of something more than passing fancy.
Consider this your invitation to return often. To lean into the spark. To discover what can only be found when the flame is allowed to spread.

Until the next dispatch, keep your heart open and your pulse quickened.
The House of Thorne is only just getting started.
—R. Adrian Thorne
Until the next ember catches
Ever yours in shadow and flame