
by Roman Porubsky (Kaiser)
Clara is a hero who sees everything. Her awareness maps every room she enters, every person, every threat. She tracks heartbeats through rubble and reads a punch before the fist moves. In Crosshaven, that makes her one of the best at keeping people alive. Then the supermax collapses. Hundreds of the world's most dangerous criminals pour into the city in a single night, and Clara throws herself into the chaos with nothing but her suit and years of training. She expects enemies. What she doesn't expect is Sonia. Sonia was a hero once. Before the massacre. Before the trial. Before hundreds of people died and she was convicted for her part in it. Now she's free, the city is burning, and she's saving the same civilians everyone assumes she'd kill. No one knows why. Clara isn't sure she wants to find out. Instead, she starts asking questions no one wants answered. What begins as suspicion becomes partnership. Partnership becomes trust. And trust, in borrowed time, becomes something neither of them planned for.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 4 Oct 2026, 03:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 4 Oct 2026, 03:08 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
18%
Two or more lists
11%
Likely threshold order: Romance → Drama → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama + Romance (11%).
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
#3630 of 12,500 · 3580 below RS #50
By genre
beats 96% of similar stories
beats 35% of similar stories
beats 59% 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 over the recent window.