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    Leo has settled into his life comfortably. A good job, a good house, a nice town. There's always something to keep him occupied and the future looks bright. However, one night changes everything when an old friend comes back into his life. Problem is she isn't the nicest house guest. And furthermore? He isn't even sure what she is.

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    29 Jan 2026

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    In a rigid matriarchal society, Jonas, a painfully shy and superstitious servant with a stubborn stutter, keeps to the quiet corners of a noble estate, tending to duties that draw little notice. Branwen, the estate’s gruff Hunting Marshal, is as blunt as she is skilled, more at home among hounds and horses than with people.

    Their paths cross when other servants begin offloading their duties onto Jonas, leading him to do menial tasks in the kennels and stables. What results is an unlikely bond that tests Jonas’s quiet solitude and softening Branwen’s guarded heart. Together, they navigate a world that expects obedience from him, command from her, and offers little space for tenderness between the two.

    Basically my attempt at a low stakes, potentially cozy romance.

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    12 Jan 2026

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    My fingers came up and gently trailed along the black marker marring my skin. My eyes lowered. It wasn’t the large, black, boldly displayed letters that spelled out the word WHORE across my chest that had me truly crippled with fear in that moment, but the letters printed beneath them, below my belly, across my lower abdomen… large, menacing... a word with more far reaching implications than the simple derogatory insult someone who would drug and rape a woman might throw at them. No, this was far more unsettling, far more frightening. Drawn across my lower bellow, just above the neatly groomed curls nestled between my legs, written in black maker, in capital letters, was the word MINE.

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    15 Nov 2025

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    Once the envy of the world, the city of Acheron now lies in ruin, gripped with violence and death. Fanatic revolutionaries control the palace, a virulent plague scours the streets, and the gods have disappeared into the high branches of their holy tree, leaving the mortals to their fate. In the sewers, a resistance movement takes hold, led by the former consort of the Vizier, working to restore order and save the city from destruction.

    A chance encounter sees the human leader of the resistance thrust together with the crocodile goddess of death. Joined by circumstance, bonded by loss, they will fight for the fate of the city, from the highest branches of the pantheon to the deepest reaches beneath the earth. Conspiracies will collide. Armies shall clash. Even the heavens may fall. . . .

    Takes place in the same universe as Abandoned. Reading the first story is not required, though it is recommended.

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    12 Nov 2025

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    After a violent mistake forces them together, a human mage and a hyena pirate find themselves in an unsteady alliance, on a mission to plunder an ancient tomb that lies far into the desert. The former seeks to rescue his father, while the other has her sights set on a fortune of gold.

    Faced with powerful sorcerers, deadly traps, pursuing pirates, and all manner of conspiracy and betrayal, the two soon discover that their only hope of survival will be each other.

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    12 Nov 2025