by Krishna1234
Meet Daniel, an ordinary London office worker, and Sally, a hardworking facilities manager. They thought surviving their worst-ever morning meeting was going to be today's biggest challenge.They were wrong.By lunchtime, Daniel and Sally find themselves hurled nearly two thousand years into the past—long before they ever woke up for breakfast. Trapped in a brutal era of myth and warfare, they cross paths with the legendary King Arthur, a ruler desperately fighting to save Britain from invading barbarians, old and new.Armed only with modern wits, do these two people from the future have what it takes to alter history? Alongside Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, they must stand their ground in an epic clash between order and absolute anarchy.The Tower and the Traitor is the explosive first book in the Gold and Steel Universe. Will they rewrite the past, or become history?
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Rank updated 13 Oct 2026, 12:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Oct 2026, 12:58 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
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Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
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.
