Chapter 34: Echoes of the Past
Lily used [Transform] and returned to her elven persona, Lysaria Greenwood. The teleportation circle flared to life as she stepped through it. On the other side, inside her suite in Tiara, the elf Lysaria Greenwood emerged from an identical circle.
She looked down at herself and checked her clothes. For her elven persona, she had chose...
2025-10-27 04:11:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33: The Path of Nothingness
Marie awoke slowly, her eyes opening to soft light spilling through the curtains. For a moment, she didn’t know where she was. The ceiling above her was neither cracked plaster nor the underside of a wagon. It was made of dark stone, smooth and lightly polished, reflecting the light in muted waves.
She blinked, turned her head, ...
2025-10-24 00:48:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Since the commissioned cover is taking a little longer, I pulled out my old GIMP skills (lol) and tried my best to make a new cover. I have to say, it wasn’t really worth the effort (4 1/2 hours), but it’s still better than the old one…
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Chapter 32: The Call
“For the hundredth ti...
2025-10-23 02:52:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31: Subjugation Event
Lily landed in front of her mansion. She thought about “deactivating” her wings but decided against it. Since they were literally a part of her now, she would just hide them when they were impractical—like when she wanted to sleep.
Maybe she was imagining it, but something inside her felt pleased with that line of thought, that th...
2025-10-21 00:01:15 +0000 UTC View PostSo, back with Grace!
First off, sorry to all Grace readers that I didn’t post a chapter for a week without any announcement. I dropped way too many chapters last week for my other story, and honestly, it’s just been a bit too much lately. I need to get back into my usual writing routine.
I’ll also be pausing on RR next week for one week to rebuild the usual backlog here.
<... 2025-10-20 02:51:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30: Wings of Beginning
After Lily made up her mind, she stepped out of her mansion. It was still early in the morning, and the fresh air together with the sight of the lake made her pause. It was really nice here.
She had summoned her mansion on a whim in the middle of the night because she had wanted a place far enough away from civilization when she and th...
2025-10-18 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29: Better Safe Than Sorry
The day before had just been too much.
Lily awoke in her four-poster bed. It was the second morning in her new life, and it already felt more like the second month. She yawned softly and let her eyes wander across the room, still half-asleep, until the weight of reality hit her again.
Yesterday she had gone straight to bed af...
2025-10-16 02:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28: Lissy Flamesborn
System Initialization...
loading...
loading...
Neural Link Established!
connection established!
loading parameters complete!
Starting system now...
[Welcome, Player, you are now entering the World of Xantia.]
Synchronizing neural pattern with Avatar core...
Sensory threshold: 82% calibrated.
[Environment Loa...
2025-10-14 21:03:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27: What Follows Fear
Marie was utterly exhausted. This day had turned out to be one of the hardest in her life, and that said something. After the whole debacle in Tiara, the Princess had not left them alone but gathered them all at their camp. Since Sevrin had already done enough damage for one day, she had to take matters into her own hands, ju...
2025-10-14 14:49:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26: The Reality of Things
Somehow the realization that this world was really like Xantia made everything more real. She was not dreaming. No, this was real, and she was in Xantia, the game where she had spent most of her time during the last years of her life.
The last twenty-four hours had felt like a dream to Lily. Until now she had always thought that may...
2025-10-12 21:08:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25: Divine Mechanics
The whole situation was a little odd. Lily sat on the fallen tree trunk and ate the large grilled leg in her hands. It tasted really good and had a strong, meaty flavor she couldn’t quite place. She had bought it earlier when walking back from the auction hall to her suite in the Golden Swan Inn, and she was still glad that her in...
Chapter 24: Strange Company
When Lily incanted [Town Call] again, the teleportation opened at the same spot it had the first time they arrived in Tiara. The runes of the circle flared to life beneath their feet, light spilling over the trees, and the familiar pull of displacement washed over them.
When the glow faded, they stood once more in the small clearing near ...
2025-10-09 22:55:58 +0000 UTC View PostWell, I actually wrote this chapter twice, because yesterday my PC froze and Word didn’t save it to the cloud. But honestly, I feel like the second version turned out better anyway… It’s also quite a struggle, since I’m currently using two writing programs. I use Scrivener for my other story and Word for this one, but before I switch this over as well, I want to finish the second book f...
2025-10-09 00:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23: The Spark
Lily returned to Veyth’s office and took a seat again, making sure everything looked untouched. Her plan was holding together so far. According to her story, Veyth had gone to fetch the item he claimed to have acquired from the cultists, and she was simply waiting for his return. Nothing suspicious about that.
She waited half an hour, keeping...
2025-10-07 20:04:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22: Cover Story
Lily dragged the big man behind her with ease. The fire inside her had already calmed down again. Somehow this day was like a typical Monday. It would have been better if she had stayed in her mansion, maybe just been happy to see her mansion in real life, to be her game avatar and grill with the cultists some meat they had hunted. Yes, some nice o...
2025-10-05 22:06:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33:
Grace Of Gatewick
“All right, Lady Grace. Let me tell you the story of Nils of Wintergarden and his adventure in the woods, far from the country estate of my family.” He gave a little bow, with a steady voice.
Grace blinked in surprise, then giggled softly. She dipped in a neat curtsey, eyes bright. “Grace. Grace of…” She...
2025-10-04 17:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21: Hellfire
Lily was irritated. Really irritated.
Her gnawing suspicion had proven right the moment Nathanel Veyth placed the [Greater Healing Potion] on the desk. The very same potion she had tossed at Marie. It was impossible not to recognize it, and the sight alone made her stomach twist. Maybe she could have kept her mouth shut, played along, and simply...
2025-10-01 22:17:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20: The Auctioneer
Nathanel had excused himself a little earlier from the meeting with the Noble Connoisseurs. Today was a strange day. Too many unannounced things had happened, and he hated it when something was unplanned. He was not even sure if the day had been lucky or cursed.
It had started with a receptionist asking if he had time to assess an item fro...
2025-09-30 22:03:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32:
The Princess And The Boy
Grace sat still in the backroom with Aldric and Selwin and listened to their story. The problems, they said, had started a few years ago when the steward of Gatewick began raising the taxes every half year. It was inconvenient and harsh, but the village could manage. Then came the drafts. The duchy raised armies,...
2025-09-30 14:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19: Silver Tongue
Inside Veythral, the Cathedral of Light sat high on the mountain at the heart of the city. In one of its many towers, a light-flooded chamber stretched wide, its floor marked by a great glowing circle of runes. At its center sat Miza on a single wooden stool, small against the vastness of the room.
Before her, with tall windows blazing behi...
2025-09-28 20:05:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: The Salon
It was not the first time in her life that Marie had stood against an insurmountable challenge, but this time felt different. They were trapped and their opponent was clearly in another league. Why did this always happen to her after she had a bright future planned? Every time her luck turned, everything fell apart. Even when they summoned the demon ...
2025-09-27 14:52:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17: Deals
Her mood had quieted by the time she walked the corridor back into the main hall. At least the fire of her anger was gone for now. The visit to the bank had been an unpleasant surprise, but better to face such truths now than later, Lily decided.
At least she had gotten some answers.
First: the world of Xantia and this one were so similar it ...
2025-09-26 17:19:01 +0000 UTC View PostI’ll update this post occasionally. Once it’s finished, you’ll be able to find the full book here in EPUB format, as well as multi-chapter EPUBs for binge reading.
//Updated September 25, 2025: current version of Book 1 / Book 2 Ch. 1-31
2025-09-25 11:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31:
Fractured Identities
Grace followed Aldric and Selwin into the hall. The place looked exactly like some set piece from the Viking movies she had seen in her old life, except less glorious. Tables and benches were pushed into a rough U-shape, a firepit smoldered weakly in the middle, and the smoke clung to the rafters instead of drifting...
Chapter 16: Director Durham
Henry Durham was trying to stay calm, but inwardly he was close to a panic attack as he scratched his quill across parchment, drafting the report for the main branch. Across the desk, Lysaria Greenwood—if that was even her real name—watched every movement of his hand with those unsettling calm green eyes.
He had known the moment Jim e...
2025-09-24 14:14:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15: Doomsday
Deep in the catacombs beneath the Cathedral of Light, the quiet scratch of quills and the rustle of parchment filled a cavernous hall. A hundred men and women sat in concentric circles, each enclosed within a faintly glowing runic diagram. Threads of mana wove between the circles, forming a vast net that pulled in scraps of information from every corn...
2025-09-24 02:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Not long ago I mentioned that I’m working with an artist to get a ‘real’ cover for By Her Grace! And today the first cover is finished. I hope you like it as much as I do! I’ll post the process of the first cover here. Personally, I found it quite interesting. I’ll also drop the artist’s Insta here, in case you’re interested in checking out more of his work; 2025-09-23 14:23:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 14: The Asara Bank
Lily leaned forward, her emerald eyes catching his. “All right then, Gideon. Let’s say I am willing to part with them. Not because I must, but because I am curious what a gentleman like you would offer.”
His eyes gleamed with quiet triumph. He leaned also forward slightly, lowering his voice so that only she could hear. “If you wou...
2025-09-22 17:17:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30:
Signs Of Change
The morning in Rivermouth tried to begin like any other. The sun rose slow over the misty fields, the dew still clinging to the grass, the smell of damp earth carrying through the air. Chickens fussed around the yards, dogs barked half-heartedly at goats, and the low voices of farmers drifted across the lanes as they led ...
2025-09-22 02:53:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13: The Auction Hall
Marie’s jaw tightened the moment Sevrin turned, clearly ready to march straight after the Princess down the road. Of course, he would. He never thought things through.
She stepped forward quickly and grabbed his arm before he could move.
He spun on her, annoyed, but the look she gave him made his mouth close.
Marie sighed t...
2025-09-18 17:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post