by Nicole Wasden
For thousands of years, humanity has fought to survive them. For peace, they said, against the dreaded dragons of Aetheria. But truly the pride of winning a horde had consumed their minds. Jade, the princess of Elsinora has always known that truth. She just never thought she would become am intricate part of it. A pawn, with no choice but to marry a wicked King who is desperate to bring forth a male heir to save his own line. With her hands bound, she must do what is necessary to help her kingdom from its debt, and spare them a bloody war. Her heart spirals, when the smallest spark of hope to escape it catches her attention. The line between enemy and fate has begun to blur… when she saves the life of a man washed upon the shore of Opal lake. But it will soon become the least of her worries.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 18:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 18:18 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
2%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Romance → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Romance (1%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#11338 of 12,379 · 11288 below RS #50
By genre
beats 67% of similar stories
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beats 5% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
