The Warlock's Familiar: A Light Novel.

They gave her a choice: execution, or consent to be bound as a warlock’s familiar. Alice didn’t need to be a Harvard grad (though she was), to know the right answer to that. Alice Walker was reading The 1872 Coal Mines Regulation Act and Miner Health: a Mediation Analysis on the Effects of Safety Inspectors, not because she found it riveting but because one of the professors on her thesis committee had written it, when a daemon named Abramel snatched her out of her body to swap her spirit for the spirit of a witch with whom he had a contract, leaving her stuck in Lily Ashton's body awaiting punishment for the woman's crime. So now Alice is stranded in a world that's obviously a Victorian fantasy knockoff: England is Anglia, France is Galia, the Anglian Empire is ruled by Queen Regina, you get the idea. She’s been isekai’d, and into a fictional world at that. It could be worse, at least she wasn't truck-kun'd. But she didn’t arrive with a Destiny or a Call, she’s not a Chosen One in an epic isekai progression story or something. She’s a loose end.But that means that, despite her familiar bond, she's also loose. . UPDATE SCHEDULE: M-W-F.  My Patreon page has 10 advance chapters, plus flash-fiction, essays, and chapters from my upcoming superhero-fiction book, Reveille. . WHAT TO EXPECT: Rational Protagonist. One very, very annoyed with the Victorian-fantasy knockoff setting. Slow Progression. More like slow mastery of a new body of knowledge. Logic-based magic system, with no mana-bars.  Weak-to-strong. Or more like weak-position-to-strong-position; this isn't litRPG. (Not that there's anything wrong with litRPG, and I personally recommend The Legendary Poet, by Nejm.) Romance. Probably. Eventually. But no harems; Alice might have been isekai'd, but she won't be putting up with any of that crap. NOTE: Book 1 of The Warlock's Familiar is complete at 26 chapters and 56,000 words, and is now being first-round edited chapter by chapter on my Patreon page (second-round editing will continue here). Writing of Book 2 has commenced.