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When Sophie wakes up in a literal storybook as the dread dragon Sapphira, she has to figure out how to help the princess to her happy ending. Even if she's currently holding said princess captive for a series of harsh and impossible tasks.
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There was a moment of disquiet when his boot first struck pebble beach, and the slippery stones skidded under him, setting him stumbling. In that moment, he saw that one of the Low-Shore men had rope in his hands, coarse and thick as a man's wrist, unwound from the coil over his shoulder to an armspan and held at the ready like he was approaching a beast to tame.
Though Aelius was under no illusion about his fate, that sight stopped him in his tracks: the realization that they'd come to meet him not as surrendered enemy commander, nor even the willing hostage that he was, but to yoke him as an animal.
Surrendering under a false and temporary truce, Commander Aelius expects to spend his final days facing the brutality of a desperate enemy. Instead, life as a hostage sheds new light on a culture he was taught to disdain, even as his own people's inevitable betrayal nears.
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10 Jul 2026
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The alien looks at Jayce like he’s a piece of meat.
Jayce grips the bars of his cage and tries not to tremble. Fear means weakness, and as Jayce has always been taught, aliens will prey on any hint of weakness that he shows, using it as a weapon against him. Despite his best attempts not to show his fear though, his teeth start to chatter and a sob slips from his throat.
But what does it matter anyway? What could his terror possibly matter now, when he’s found himself held captive by aliens, stranded impossibly far from Earth? What could allowing himself the indulgence of a single sob matter when he’s helpless and staring down the cold, eerily emotionless eyes of an alien that he can only assume wants to hurt him?
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08 Jul 2026
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Paolo has stowed away aboard an airship headed far away from his current problems, and he knows the payment for his passage will be steep.
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07 Jul 2026
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“What am I supposed to do with a slave, Your Grace?” Coram asks gruffly.
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Coram of Lansing, General of the Hundreds, loyal soldier to the Duke of Brentwood, is rewarded for his service with a title, land, and a personal slave, Avery. Both are traumatized and wounded in their own ways: Coram is haunted by the deaths he's caused and his ruined hand, and Avery has been abused by his owners for as long as he can remember. Can they help each other heal and, perhaps, find love?
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07 Jul 2026