by AMColeman
UPDATES MONDAYS Isis Cassidy has had better weeks. A former Army CID investigator and State Department security officer, she's been quietly blacklisted from her career, and the only job on offer is protecting the twelve-year-old grandson of a reclusive Vermont aristocrat. It's easy work — until armed professionals start making serious attempts to take the boy, and the woman who hired her turns out to be considerably older, and considerably more dangerous, than she looks. Lady Elaine Burton has a past. A very long past. And the enemies she made in another life, in another world, have apparently decided that five centuries is long enough to wait.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 19 Oct 2026, 19:48 UTC
Entry forecast updated 19 Oct 2026, 19:48 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.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
beats 49% of similar stories
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beats 1% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
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 lifetime.
