by AbsentSomewhere
Alira Vane lies about everything. Her name(s). Her (in)ability to swim. Whether her shaman grandma predicted that not-so-graceful faceplant. She lies because Monday sucks, coffee is life, and why the hell not? It's a mostly harmless quirk until a Goddess decides her ‘talent’ is the solution to a doomed novel’s bad ending. Abducted and cast as its Unreliable Narrator, Alira is armed with future knowledge and plot-twisting lies. Her plan? Die and go home. It’s simple enough until the novel’s evil overlord binds her to his half-immortal life, deciding she’ll stay in House Ravon as his adopted daughter for reasons as inscrutable as his own villainous past. Now trapped in a grim academy arc racing toward a fiery climax with cosmic horrors and fanatic cultists out to corrupt souls, Alira must find the key to the Alchemic Bind before she’s forced to watch a world she’s growing to care about burn to ash. In a story where the narrative is both her weapon and her guillotine, will she break out, or will it break her first? Mislead Death. Deceive Fate. Gaslight the Narrative itself. Copyright © AbsentSomewhere, 2025-2026. All rights reserved. Unreliable Narrator's Bias is only posted on Royal Road, Scribblehub, and my Patreon. Any publication elsewhere is stolen and violates my copyright.
