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by Euphridia
New chapters are posted at least weekly. When the President said to immerse ourselves in the project, this was NOT what I had in mind! I really should’ve taken the publisher’s employment contract more seriously… Rachel and her best friend Nora never imagined their first job at a publishing company would catapult them into the heart of their favorite fantasy web novel. Five years after the story's abrupt hiatus left fans in limbo, they seize the chance to help the enigmatic author complete the tale that had captivated their hearts during their high school days. But what begins as an exciting creative endeavor quickly spirals into a quirky, unimaginable adventure when they're whisked away without consent into the very story they longed to save. Now, the two will get firsthand experience dealing with the destructive demon lord who betrayed and banished the heroine during the story's original cliffhanger. But what if he isn't the card-carrying villain everyone else seems to think he is? Book 1 on Amazon and Audible here. Additional details: Other: Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance Tags: Female Lead, Magic, Portal Fantasy / Isekai, Progression, Reincarnation, Soft Sci-fi, Supernatural Content Warnings: Disturbing content: This includes, but is not limited to, the slavery of fantasy humanoid races (uncelebrated and fought against by the protagonists), along with the MC’s thoughts and actions stemming from past trauma, self-doubt, and unequal relationships, with humor (including self-deprecating humor) used as a coping mechanism. Graphic Violence: physical harm (protagonists and antagonists alike) MC Key Descriptors: Amnesiac, caring, female, reincarnated, reluctant, flawed, straight, slow growth (but increases over time with some backward progression) Story/Plot Devices: Author as Goddess Banter Breaking the fourth wall (some Author’s Notes contain Post-Chapter Omake/Extras) Broken, ill-defined, and unfair world system Emotional disparities between obligations and motivations Enemies to friends? Friends to enemies? Evolving character relationships First Person POV (MC) Impending world threat Possession (temporary possession of MC by past lives) Relationships span a variety of romantic and platonic connections Self-care techniques (both successfully and not so successfully executed) Systematic improvement Other multiple tropes (both straight and satirizing)
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| 1 | Prologue: How Did I Get Here? | 0 |
| 2 | Book 1: Chapter 1: Hiatus Announcement | 0 |
| 3 | Book 1: Chapter 2: Cliffhanger | 0 |
| 4 | Book 1: Chapter 3: Confronting the Villain | 0 |
| 5 | Book 1: Chapter 4: Closure? | 0 |
| 6 | Book 2: Prologue: Q1 Report: Special Projects, Cooperative Universal Publishing (CUP) | 0 |
| 7 | Book 2: Afterword | 0 |
| 8 | Book 3: Prologue: FY Q2 Report | 0 |
| 9 | Book 3: Chapter 1: The Path Forward | 0 |
| 10 | Book 3: Chapter 2: Situation Under Scrutiny | 0 |
| 11 | Book 3: Chapter 3: The Unlikely Confessor | 0 |
| 12 | Book 3: Chapter 4: Nora Knew | 0 |
| 13 | Book 3: Chapter 5: Pinky Swears and Secrets | 0 |
| 14 | Book 3: Chapter 6: Questionable Inheritance of Trust | 0 |
| 15 | Book 3: Chapter 7: Brewed Reflections | 0 |
| 16 | Book 3: Chapter 8: Documental Deception | 0 |
| 17 | Book 3: Chapter 9: Vital Communications | 0 |
| 18 | Book 3: Chapter 10: The Prince's Dilemma | 0 |
| 19 | Book 3: Chapter 11: Never Meet Your Heroes | 0 |
| 20 | Book 3: Chapter 12: Clash of the Captains | 0 |
| 21 | Book 3: Chapter 13: Imposters Don’t Get Imposter Syndrome | 0 |
| 22 | Book 3: Chapter 14: Labels Lie | 0 |
| 23 | Book 3: Chapter 15: Whispers and Wimples | 0 |
| 24 | Book 3: Chapter 16: Kitchen Camouflage | 0 |
| 25 | Book 3: Chapter 17: Playing with Perspectives | 0 |
| 26 | Book 3: Chapter 18: Signals and Signets | 0 |
| 27 | Book 3: Chapter 19: Reconciliation Phase | 0 |
| 28 | Book 3: Chapter 20: An Absurd Algebraic Diversion | 0 |
| 29 | Book 3: Chapter 21: The Rooster's Wake-Up Call | 0 |
| 30 | Book 3: Chapter 22: Tales from the Fringe | 0 |
| 31 | Book 3: Chapter 23: Not Just My Problem to Fix | 0 |
| 32 | Book 3: Chapter 24: The Framed and the Fallen | 0 |
| 33 | Book 3: Chapter 25: Final Desserts | 0 |
| 34 | Book 3: Chapter 26: A Flash of Insight | 0 |
| 35 | Book 3: Chapter 27: Midnight Meeting | 0 |
| 36 | Book 3: Chapter 28: Three Calls for Martial Law | 0 |
| 37 | Book 3: Chapter 29: Winning Heads and Hearts | 0 |
| 38 | Book 3: Chapter 30: Commanding Under Pressure | 0 |
| 39 | Book 3: Chapter 31: Marked from Below | 0 |
| 40 | Side Chapter: Memories of a Wintertide Past | 0 |
| 41 | Book 3: Chapter 32: Insight on the Bite | 0 |
| 42 | Book 3: Chapter 33: The Cistern's Secret | 0 |
| 43 | Book 3: Chapter 34: Devourer of the Defiant | 0 |
| 44 | Book 3: Chapter 35: Eavesdropping on Evil | 0 |
| 45 | Book 3: Chapter 36: The General’s Ultimatum | 0 |
| 46 | Book 3: Chapter 37: Sacrificial Sword | 0 |
| 47 | Book 3: Chapter 38: Burden of the Blade | 0 |
| 48 | Book 3: Chapter 39: Safeguards and Shields | 0 |
| 49 | Book 3: Chapter 40: Echoes of the Past | 0 |
| 50 | Book 3: Chapter 41: Unseen Forces | 0 |
| 51 | Book 3: Chapter 42: The Captain's Shadows | 0 |
| 52 | Book 3: Chapter 43: Knights of the Roundtable Discussion | 0 |
| 53 | Book 3: Chapter 44: Records of Righteousness and Ruin | 0 |
| 54 | Book 3: Chapter 45: The Eight Edicts of Epiales | 0 |
| 55 | Book 3: Chapter 46: Delegating Duty and Destiny | 0 |
| 56 | Book 3: Chapter 47: Crossroads of Change | 0 |
| 57 | Book 3: Chapter 48: Dueling Command | 0 |
| 58 | Book 3: Chapter 49: Fields of Gold and Footnotes of Glory | 0 |
| 59 | Book 3: Chapter 50: Trial and Error Training For Two | 0 |
| 60 | Book 3: Chapter 51: This Land, That Land, No Man's Land | 0 |
| 61 | Book 3: Chapter 52: Playing with Portals | 0 |
| 62 | Book 3: Chapter 53: Calling Foul on Foul Winds | 0 |
| 63 | Book 3: Chapter 54: Expanding One's Skill Set | 0 |
| 64 | Book 3: Chapter 55: Too Much of a Bad Thing | 0 |
| 65 | Book 3: Chapter 56: Playbook for Possession Predicted | 0 |
| 66 | Book 3: Chapter 57: Early Arrival | 0 |
| 67 | Book 3: Chapter 58: He Had Us In The First Half, Not Gonna Lie | 0 |
| 68 | Book 3: Chapter 59: The Invitation | 0 |
| 69 | Book 3: Afterword: Finding Strength in the Shadows | 0 |
| 70 | FY Q3 Report: Special Projects, Cooperative Universal Publishing (CUP) | 0 |
| 71 | Book 4: Chapter 1: Empathy is Not a Sin (But Justice Can Be a Sword?) | 0 |
| 72 | Book 4: Chapter 2: Stepping Into The Unknown | 0 |
| 73 | Book 4: Chapter 3: Assumptions and Other Observational Errors | 0 |
| 74 | Book 4: Chapter 4: So Your Unwilling Research Subject Fought Back (And Other Reasons for IRBs) | 0 |
| 75 | Book 4: Chapter 5: A Seat at the Demon Lord's Table | 0 |
| 76 | Book 4: Chapter 6: Aziza Spills the Tea | 0 |
| 77 | Book 4: Chapter 7: The Party's Over | 0 |
| 78 | Book 4: Chapter 8: But Enough About Me, Let's Talk About You | 0 |
| 79 | Book 4: Chapter 9: The Sword Wills Only Truth | 0 |
| 80 | Book 4: Chapter 10: Orders, Purpose, and Other Fictions | 0 |
| 81 | Book 4: Chapter 11: Less Than Nothing | 0 |
| 82 | Book 4: Chapter 12: Final Judgment Subject to Distraction | 0 |
| 83 | Book 4: Chapter 13: Threadbound | 0 |
| 84 | Book 4: Chapter 14: Snakes, Sand, and System Failures: Speranza's Got It All | 0 |
| 85 | Book 4: Chapter 15: No Solicitors | 0 |
| 86 | Book 4: Chapter 16: Under Whose Authority? | 0 |
| 87 | Book 4: Chapter 17: Watch Out For Falling Snakes and Existential Crises | 0 |
| 88 | Book 4: Chapter 18: Into The Serpent's Sanctum | 0 |
| 89 | Book 4: Chapter 19: Better Homes and Hellscapes | 0 |
| 90 | Book 4: Chapter 20: Betrayed Again | 0 |
| 91 | Book 4: Chapter 21: Everyone Sees a Different Monster | 0 |
| 92 | Book 4: Chapter 22: I Didn't Pull Any Punches | 0 |
| 93 | Book 4: Chapter 23: Mutual Termination of Contract | 0 |
| 94 | Book 4: Chapter 24: In Full Disclosure | 0 |
| 95 | Book 4: Chapter 25: Egos, Interrupted | 0 |
| 96 | Book 4: Chapter 26: To Err Is Human (And Demon) | 0 |
| 97 | Book 4: Chapter 27: Team Building Under Pressure | 0 |
| 98 | Book 4: Chapter 28: Duel-Based Succession Planning | 0 |
| 99 | Book 4: Chapter 29: Above and Beneath the Surface | 0 |
| 100 | Book 4: Chapter 30: Fugue in D Minor | 0 |
| 101 | Book 4: Chapter 31: Unable To Process | 0 |
| 102 | Book 4: Chapter 32: Shared and Silent Burdens | 0 |
| 103 | Book 4: Chapter 33: A Clean Slate | 0 |
| 104 | Book 4: Chapter 34: Misrepresentative of the Whole | 0 |
| 105 | Book 4 Chapter 35: Have Your Cake (Because You Can’t Take It With You) | 0 |
| 106 | Book 4: Chapter 36: On Concealment and Context | 0 |
| 107 | Book 4: Chapter 37: Sanctioned by Someone Else | 0 |
| 108 | Book 4: Chapter 38: Leverage Is in the Eye of the Beholder | 0 |
| 109 | Book 4: Chapter 39: Fixed in Finality | 0 |
| 110 | Book 4: Chapter 40: Even Gods Can't Do It Alone | 0 |
| 111 | Book 4: Chapter 41: Checkpoint | 0 |
| 112 | Book 4: Chapter 42: All That Glitters | 0 |
| 113 | Book 4: Chapter 43: Terms of Passage | 0 |
| 114 | Book 4: Chapter 44: Investiture and Divestiture | 0 |
| 115 | Side Story: Krampus Cramps My Style | 0 |
| 116 | Book 4: Chapter 45: Never Trust Ann | 0 |
| 117 | Book 4: Chapter 46: Two Heads Are (Sometimes) Better Than One | 0 |
| 118 | Book 4: Chapter 47: Situationship | 0 |
| 119 | Book 4: Chapter 48: Urbane Pretenses | 0 |
| 120 | Book 2: Chapter 49: Orders Obeyed | 0 |
| 121 | Book 4: Chapter 50: Prayer to Pyre | 0 |
| 122 | Book 4: Chapter 51: Playing with Fire | 0 |
| 123 | Book 4: Chapter 52: Consulting the Heavens | 0 |
| 124 | Book 4: Chapter 53: Two Tickets to Paradise | 0 |
| 125 | Book 4: Chapter 54: Awe, Alarms, and All Alone | 0 |
| 126 | Book 4: Chapter 55: The True Origin of Evil | 0 |
| 127 | Book 4: Chapter 56: Behind the Goddess’s Curtain | 0 |
| 128 | Book 4: Chapter 57: The Shattering of Purpose | 0 |
| 129 | Book 4: Afterword: Of Systems and Bad Actors | 0 |
| 130 | CUP Injury and Illness Incident Report (Book 4 Summary) | 0 |
| 131 | Book 5: Chapter 1: Emergency Contact | 0 |
| 132 | Book 5: Chapter 2: Performance Review | 0 |
| 133 | Book 5: Chapter 3: Hello Darkness My Old Friend | 0 |
| 134 | Book 5: Chapter 4: A Scar Made of Dawn | 0 |
| 135 | Book 5: Chapter 5: Sanctum Shenanigans | 0 |
| 136 | Book 5: Chapter 6: The Marks We Make | 0 |
| 137 | Book 5: Chapter 7: Squabbling Before The Storm | 0 |
| 138 | Book 5: Chapter 8: Built and Broken | 0 |
| 139 | Book 5: Chapter 9: Reading Between the Lines | 0 |
| 140 | Book 5: Chapter 10: The Wound and the Lie | 0 |
| 141 | Book 5: Chapter 11: The Ghost Beneath the Guilt | 0 |
| 142 | Book 5: Chapter 12: Terms of Trust | 0 |
| 143 | Book 5: Chapter 13: Containment Is Not Enough | 0 |
| 144 | Book 5: Chapter 14: A Demon's Uncle | 0 |
| 145 | Book 5: Chapter 15: And the Cat Came Back | 0 |
| 146 | Book 5: Chapter 16: Credence | 0 |
| 147 | Book 5: Chapter 17: Clearing the Air | 0 |
| 148 | Book 5: Chapter 18: No More Hiding Under a Rock | 0 |
| 149 | Alternate Universe: Book 1: Chapter 7: The Interview [That Never Happened] | 0 |
| 150 | Book 5: Chapter 19: What Was Taken | 0 |
| 151 | Book 5: Chapter 20: All Done in Whose Name? | 0 |
| 152 | Book 5: Chapter 21: Conflict of Interest in My Favor | 0 |
| 153 | Book 5: Chapter 22: Priority Target | 0 |
| 154 | Book 5: Chapter 23: Surviving Purely Out of Spite | 0 |
| 155 | Book 5: Chapter 24: Risk Factors | 0 |
| 156 | Book 5: Chapter 25: Without a Second Thought | 0 |
| 157 | Book 5: Chapter 26: Contingency Planning | 0 |
| 158 | Book 5: Chapter 27: Closing the Distance | 0 |
| 159 | Book 5: Chapter 28: Old Friends Again | 0 |
| 160 | Book 5: Chapter 29: The Right Dance Partner | 0 |
| 161 | Book 5: Chapter 30: Out of Sight | 0 |
| 162 | Book 5: Chapter 31: By Any Other Name | 0 |
| 163 | Book 5: Chapter 32: Prince in the Dark | 0 |
| 164 | Book 5: Chapter 33: Where Nobody Knows Your Name | 0 |
| 165 | Book 5: Chapter 34: What Use Is There for Me? | 0 |
| 166 | Book 5: Chapter 35: Letting Go of The Hero | 0 |
| 167 | Book 5: Chapter 36: Small Strides | 0 |
| 168 | Book 5: Chapter 37: First and Final Verdict | 0 |
| 169 | Book 5: Chapter 38: Cardinal Calvary Strike (Patent Pending) | 0 |
| 170 | Book 5: Chapter 39: Expensive Words | 0 |
| 171 | Book 5: Chapter 40: A Hollow Trophy | 0 |
| 172 | Book 5: Chapter 41: A Familiar Visage | 0 |
| 173 | Book 5: Chapter 42: The Cat's Out of the Bag | 0 |
| 174 | Book 5: Chapter 43: Three Days? That's Tomorrow! | 0 |
| 175 | Book 5: Chapter 44: Rules of Engagement | 0 |
| 176 | Book 5: Chapter 45: War, What Is It Good For? | 0 |
| 177 | Book 5: Chapter 46: Head and Heart Re-alignment | 0 |
| 178 | Book 5: Chapter 47: Disposable | 0 |
| 179 | Book 5: Chapter 48: I Stare Because I Care | 0 |
| 180 | Book 5: Chapter 49: The Hollow Ivory Tower | — |
| 181 | Book 5: Chapter 50: Protocol Diaspora | — |
| 182 | Book 5: Chapter 51: The Final Dream | — |
| 183 | Book 5: Chapter 52: Going for the Good Ending | — |
| 184 | Book 5: Chapter 53: Making Port | — |