Chapter 241: The Battle of the Pass IX: Scoured Clean
Keri circled, placing his body between the dowager queen of Lucania and Liv. Now that her cane was gone, he didn’t see much of a chance the old woman would launch a lightning bolt horizontally, instead of calling one down from the clouds above, but the last thing he was going to do was take the chance she could take Liv in the ...
2025-08-21 14:48:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Our cover artist has a second concept for book four! Let me know what you think, and which you prefer
2025-08-21 13:09:05 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: I added a bit at the beginning of 239 to show more of what the Eld are doing on screen. As always, I value constructive criticism that helps to improve the story!
Chapter 240: The Battle of the Pass VIII: The Bolt in Flight
Wren shifted nervously atop the saddle of the horse she’d been lent by the Falkenraths. For most of her long life, in the jungles and mountains o...
2025-08-20 14:41:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Again, any feedback you have I can consolidate and pass on to the artist! This is Liv and Rose fighting a Storm Eel
2025-08-20 00:42:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 239: The Battle of the Pass VII: Wing and Blood
Around Liv, the battlements descended into a swirl of chaos.
Spells lit the faces of fighting men and women with the glow of shining blue mana, the white glow of concentrated sunlight, or the ruddy orange cast of flames. Incantations, half-heard, rose above the screams of the wounded and dying. For a hundred feet in...
2025-08-19 13:41:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-08-18 19:27:22 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to get my writing done early today, so that I can do as much social media as I can for launch day. Before 10am est is pretty good, I think.
If you're on Facebook, and you could head over my author page to share the announcement post, that would be wonderful!
There's also a post ...
Today is Release Day!
I've scheduled this as a special announcement, set to go off just after midnight, and hopefully it works :)
Our regular chapter will go off at 7am EST, and both these spaces will contain the following information, which will be updated over the course of release day.
Without all of your support, this story would never have made it to t...
Today is stub day! I'll start by going through the early chapters here on Patreon first and removing them, and then I'll head over to RR.
Chapter 237: The Eyes of an Owl
A day of roosting among the rafters in the great hall at the Falcon’s Roost to no result had left Wren mired in an equal mixture of boredom and anxiety. While the princess and her ladies in waiting had desce...
2025-08-15 14:51:46 +0000 UTC View PostIf you know anyone who is still catching up on RR, be sure to remind them that we're stubbing book one tomorrow! I don't want anyone caught by surprise.
Chapter 236: The Battle of the Pass V: Assault
Liv dashed forward in an attempt to catch Miina before she fell. “Arjun!” It was difficult to imagine how even a talented healer could save someone with their throat torn open...
2025-08-14 14:35:07 +0000 UTC View Post
With five days until the release of book one, Mango now has the preorder up for book two in ebook form!
2025-08-13 18:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostI did a bit of rewriting in yesterday's chapter, because a reader correctly pointed out that Liv had asked Ghveris to accompany her on to the parley. There might be a bit more work done with it to come, but he's definitely there, now! This is the 33rd chapter of book six, and there are nine left a minimum. I suspect this will be our longest volume, when it's done.
Chapter 235: The Battle ...
2025-08-13 14:29:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 234: The Battle of the Pass III: What Might Have Been
The morning of Liv’s second day at the pass came clear and warm.
She rode out under a sky of endless blue, with only a few scattered wisps of cloud, in the golden sunlight. Steria, having had a night’s rest and a generous helping of oats, tossed her mane playfully, and Liv knew that if she gave the northern mare...
2025-08-12 12:44:18 +0000 UTC View PostWren hung upside down from the rafters above the great hall at Falcon’s Roost, the immense castle of the Falkenraths. The voices of those at the high table, beneath her, echoed up into the darkness. Wren’s delicate ears twitched, angling toward the conversation, as she shut out the murmur of the knights at the lower tables.
“-take a...
2025-08-11 14:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe ebook of book one is now available for preorder on Amazon! Paperback copies need to be ordered on release day, unfortunately.
Chapter 232: The Battle of the Pass II: Return to the Terrapin
Liv squeezed her eyes shut, but the bars of light connecting twenty Mountain Home soldiers to the exposed archers below the wall were so bright that she could still see them. Even when the light died away, she had to blink away the glare, and after-images of the magical strike lingered across her field of vision.
M...
2025-08-08 14:13:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 231: The Battle of the Pass I: Banners Before the Wall
By early afternoon, near seven hundred people marched south from Whitehill to Fairford.
It turned out that only those within Castle Whitehill itself had been trapped in dreams, as Liv had been. Outside of the castle, the rest of the city had instead been affected by a sort of widespread but less potent ...
2025-08-07 14:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 230: Only In Dreams
“I assume that you’re responsible for the destruction of my nightmare stones,” Genevieve Arundell said. Though she wore a mask to cover her face, she sounded just the same as when Liv had last seen her at Coral Bay.
“Indirectly. We found one, and then set other people to hunt down the rest.” There was no chair in front of the a...
2025-08-06 13:24:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 229: The Road South
The snow at the summit of Bald Peak would linger well into flood season, Liv knew, but at the base of the mountain, every icicle was dripping, and patches of wet ground were growing between the remaining drifts.
By the time the last of the Elden forces came through the waypoint, she hadn’t slept in the same bed as Rosamund for nearly a week. Thoug...
2025-08-05 14:11:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 228: Falcon’s Roost
“How can one rusting woman cause this much trouble?”
Millie couldn’t help but jump at the loud crash which accompanied her husband’s entrance into their suite of rooms at the Falcon’s Roost. To either side of her, Cecily and Evangeline exchanged glances, their needles pausing in between stitches. Millie put her needle t...
2025-08-04 14:41:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 227: Bheuv
The ride back through the mountains into the Aspen River Valley was a quicker journey than tracking Baron Erskine’s raiders out had been. For one thing, Keri and his warriors were free to make their own way, without having to bother with tracking a fleeing quarry. Finally, though he hated to think in that way, it was a lot easier to move quickly without ha...
2025-08-01 13:46:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 226: Winter’s End
“How are you keeping the mechanisms from freezing up?” Matthew asked, running a single gloved hand over the wooden frame of a trebuchet, which had been carved with Vædic sigils up and down its length. “Enchantments?”
Liv nodded from where she leaned against the crenellations which rimmed the curtain wall encircling the summit of Bald Peak.&...
2025-07-31 14:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 225: Pyres on the Snow
When Liv, Sidonie, Kaija, Piers and the rest of the soldiers who’d accompanied her to Ashford appeared on the waystone beneath Bald Peak, it was clear at a glance just how unprepared they’d actually been to receive the refugees.
The wall around the stone was sufficient to give Whitehill guards a chance to launch a wave of crossbow bolts at any inco...
2025-07-30 15:03:54 +0000 UTC View PostWe're taking our son to the water park today, so I got up very early to write - which means an early chapter for you all!
Chapter 224: Among the Pines
The winter wind whistled through the pines, and Wren shivered despite the fact that she was wrapped in more than one layer of furs. The steel plates of Ghveris’s armor were cold to the touch, if she was careless enough to make...
2025-07-29 11:56:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 223: The Battle of Ashford
The dark stillness of the place between the waystone shattered into light, smoke, and the screams of the wounded and dying.
Liv blinked away the glare of the waystone’s dying magic, and saw scores of castle servants, wounded soldiers, and a handful of nobles recoiling from her arrival. The guards had formed two ranks facing the waystone, th...
2025-07-28 13:48:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 222: Rock and Sky
“This isn’t exactly what the duchess thinks you’re doing,” Rose shouted over the whipping wind.
The summit of Bald Peak was a bare expanse of rock where not even moss grew, and there were certainly no trees to provide them shelter from the weather. If it hadn’t been for Liv using waste heat to keep the three women warm, and the...
2025-07-25 15:04:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 221: The Long Pursuit
Wren shivered and turned her face into the soft fur that tickled her face. She shivered; Castle Whitehill wasn’t normally this cold, was it? If there was one thing Liv’s adoptive family was good at - other than getting embroiled in all sorts of trouble - it was keeping warm during the winter.
She hunched her shoulders against...
2025-07-24 14:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post
