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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? 2 years ago | 0 |
| 2 | Book 1: Chapter 1: Hiatus Announcement 2 years ago | 0 |
| 3 | Book 1: Chapter 2: Cliffhanger 2 years ago | 0 |
| 4 | Book 1: Chapter 3: Confronting the Villain 2 years ago | 0 |
| 5 | Book 1: Chapter 4: Closure? 2 years ago |
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| 6 | Book 2: Prologue: Q1 Report: Special Projects, Cooperative Universal Publishing (CUP) 2 years ago | 0 |
| 7 | Book 2: Afterword 22 months ago | 0 |
| 8 | Book 3: Prologue: FY Q2 Report 22 months ago | 0 |
| 9 | Book 3: Chapter 1: The Path Forward 22 months ago | 0 |
| 10 | Book 3: Chapter 2: Situation Under Scrutiny 22 months ago | 0 |
| 11 | Book 3: Chapter 3: The Unlikely Confessor 22 months ago | 0 |
| 12 | Book 3: Chapter 4: Nora Knew 22 months ago | 0 |
| 13 | Book 3: Chapter 5: Pinky Swears and Secrets 22 months ago | 0 |
| 14 | Book 3: Chapter 6: Questionable Inheritance of Trust 21 months ago | 0 |
| 15 | Book 3: Chapter 7: Brewed Reflections 21 months ago | 0 |
| 16 | Book 3: Chapter 8: Documental Deception 21 months ago | 0 |
| 17 | Book 3: Chapter 9: Vital Communications 21 months ago | 0 |
| 18 | Book 3: Chapter 10: The Prince's Dilemma 21 months ago | 0 |
| 19 | Book 3: Chapter 11: Never Meet Your Heroes 21 months ago | 0 |
| 20 | Book 3: Chapter 12: Clash of the Captains 21 months ago | 0 |
| 21 | Book 3: Chapter 13: Imposters Don’t Get Imposter Syndrome 21 months ago | 0 |
| 22 | Book 3: Chapter 14: Labels Lie 21 months ago | 0 |
| 23 | Book 3: Chapter 15: Whispers and Wimples 21 months ago | 0 |
| 24 | Book 3: Chapter 16: Kitchen Camouflage 21 months ago | 0 |
| 25 | Book 3: Chapter 17: Playing with Perspectives 21 months ago | 0 |
| 26 | Book 3: Chapter 18: Signals and Signets 21 months ago | 0 |
| 27 | Book 3: Chapter 19: Reconciliation Phase 20 months ago | 0 |
| 28 | Book 3: Chapter 20: An Absurd Algebraic Diversion 20 months ago | 0 |
| 29 | Book 3: Chapter 21: The Rooster's Wake-Up Call 20 months ago | 0 |
| 30 | Book 3: Chapter 22: Tales from the Fringe 20 months ago | 0 |
| 31 | Book 3: Chapter 23: Not Just My Problem to Fix 20 months ago | 0 |
| 32 | Book 3: Chapter 24: The Framed and the Fallen 20 months ago | 0 |
| 33 | Book 3: Chapter 25: Final Desserts 20 months ago | 0 |
| 34 | Book 3: Chapter 26: A Flash of Insight 20 months ago | 0 |
| 35 | Book 3: Chapter 27: Midnight Meeting 20 months ago | 0 |
| 36 | Book 3: Chapter 28: Three Calls for Martial Law 19 months ago | 0 |
| 37 | Book 3: Chapter 29: Winning Heads and Hearts 19 months ago | 0 |
| 38 | Book 3: Chapter 30: Commanding Under Pressure 19 months ago | 0 |
| 39 | Book 3: Chapter 31: Marked from Below 19 months ago | 0 |
| 40 | Side Chapter: Memories of a Wintertide Past 19 months ago | 0 |
| 41 | Book 3: Chapter 32: Insight on the Bite 19 months ago | 0 |
| 42 | Book 3: Chapter 33: The Cistern's Secret 19 months ago | 0 |
| 43 | Book 3: Chapter 34: Devourer of the Defiant 19 months ago | 0 |
| 44 | Book 3: Chapter 35: Eavesdropping on Evil 19 months ago | 0 |
| 45 | Book 3: Chapter 36: The General’s Ultimatum 19 months ago | 0 |
| 46 | Book 3: Chapter 37: Sacrificial Sword 18 months ago | 0 |
| 47 | Book 3: Chapter 38: Burden of the Blade 18 months ago | 0 |
| 48 | Book 3: Chapter 39: Safeguards and Shields 18 months ago | 0 |
| 49 | Book 3: Chapter 40: Echoes of the Past 18 months ago | 0 |
| 50 | Book 3: Chapter 41: Unseen Forces 18 months ago | 0 |
| 51 | Book 3: Chapter 42: The Captain's Shadows 18 months ago | 0 |
| 52 | Book 3: Chapter 43: Knights of the Roundtable Discussion 18 months ago | 0 |
| 53 | Book 3: Chapter 44: Records of Righteousness and Ruin 18 months ago | 0 |
| 54 | Book 3: Chapter 45: The Eight Edicts of Epiales 18 months ago | 0 |
| 55 | Book 3: Chapter 46: Delegating Duty and Destiny 18 months ago | 0 |
| 56 | Book 3: Chapter 47: Crossroads of Change 18 months ago | 0 |
| 57 | Book 3: Chapter 48: Dueling Command 17 months ago | 0 |
| 58 | Book 3: Chapter 49: Fields of Gold and Footnotes of Glory 17 months ago | 0 |
| 59 | Book 3: Chapter 50: Trial and Error Training For Two 17 months ago | 0 |
| 60 | Book 3: Chapter 51: This Land, That Land, No Man's Land 17 months ago | 0 |
| 61 | Book 3: Chapter 52: Playing with Portals 17 months ago | 0 |
| 62 | Book 3: Chapter 53: Calling Foul on Foul Winds 17 months ago | 0 |
| 63 | Book 3: Chapter 54: Expanding One's Skill Set 17 months ago | 0 |
| 64 | Book 3: Chapter 55: Too Much of a Bad Thing 17 months ago | 0 |
| 65 | Book 3: Chapter 56: Playbook for Possession Predicted 16 months ago | 0 |
| 66 | Book 3: Chapter 57: Early Arrival 16 months ago | 0 |
| 67 | Book 3: Chapter 58: He Had Us In The First Half, Not Gonna Lie 16 months ago | 0 |
| 68 | Book 3: Chapter 59: The Invitation 16 months ago | 0 |
| 69 | Book 3: Afterword: Finding Strength in the Shadows 16 months ago | 0 |
| 70 | FY Q3 Report: Special Projects, Cooperative Universal Publishing (CUP) 16 months ago | 0 |
| 71 | Book 4: Chapter 1: Empathy is Not a Sin (But Justice Can Be a Sword?) 15 months ago | 0 |
| 72 | Book 4: Chapter 2: Stepping Into The Unknown 15 months ago | 0 |
| 73 | Book 4: Chapter 3: Assumptions and Other Observational Errors 15 months ago | 0 |
| 74 | Book 4: Chapter 4: So Your Unwilling Research Subject Fought Back (And Other Reasons for IRBs) 15 months ago | 0 |
| 75 | Book 4: Chapter 5: A Seat at the Demon Lord's Table 14 months ago | 0 |
| 76 | Book 4: Chapter 6: Aziza Spills the Tea 14 months ago | 0 |
| 77 | Book 4: Chapter 7: The Party's Over 14 months ago | 0 |
| 78 | Book 4: Chapter 8: But Enough About Me, Let's Talk About You 14 months ago | 0 |
| 79 | Book 4: Chapter 9: The Sword Wills Only Truth 14 months ago | 0 |
| 80 | Book 4: Chapter 10: Orders, Purpose, and Other Fictions 14 months ago | 0 |
| 81 | Book 4: Chapter 11: Less Than Nothing 13 months ago | 0 |
| 82 | Book 4: Chapter 12: Final Judgment Subject to Distraction 13 months ago | 0 |
| 83 | Book 4: Chapter 13: Threadbound 13 months ago | 0 |
| 84 | Book 4: Chapter 14: Snakes, Sand, and System Failures: Speranza's Got It All 13 months ago | 0 |
| 85 | Book 4: Chapter 15: No Solicitors 13 months ago | 0 |
| 86 | Book 4: Chapter 16: Under Whose Authority? 13 months ago | 0 |
| 87 | Book 4: Chapter 17: Watch Out For Falling Snakes and Existential Crises 12 months ago | 0 |
| 88 | Book 4: Chapter 18: Into The Serpent's Sanctum 12 months ago | 0 |
| 89 | Book 4: Chapter 19: Better Homes and Hellscapes 12 months ago | 0 |
| 90 | Book 4: Chapter 20: Betrayed Again 12 months ago | 0 |
| 91 | Book 4: Chapter 21: Everyone Sees a Different Monster 12 months ago | 0 |
| 92 | Book 4: Chapter 22: I Didn't Pull Any Punches 12 months ago | 0 |
| 93 | Book 4: Chapter 23: Mutual Termination of Contract 12 months ago | 0 |
| 94 | Book 4: Chapter 24: In Full Disclosure 11 months ago | 0 |
| 95 | Book 4: Chapter 25: Egos, Interrupted 11 months ago | 0 |
| 96 | Book 4: Chapter 26: To Err Is Human (And Demon) 11 months ago | 0 |
| 97 | Book 4: Chapter 27: Team Building Under Pressure 11 months ago | 0 |
| 98 | Book 4: Chapter 28: Duel-Based Succession Planning 11 months ago | 0 |
| 99 | Book 4: Chapter 29: Above and Beneath the Surface 11 months ago | 0 |
| 100 | Book 4: Chapter 30: Fugue in D Minor 10 months ago | 0 |
| 101 | Book 4: Chapter 31: Unable To Process 10 months ago | 0 |
| 102 | Book 4: Chapter 32: Shared and Silent Burdens 10 months ago | 0 |
| 103 | Book 4: Chapter 33: A Clean Slate 10 months ago | 0 |
| 104 | Book 4: Chapter 34: Misrepresentative of the Whole 9 months ago | 0 |
| 105 | Book 4 Chapter 35: Have Your Cake (Because You Can’t Take It With You) 9 months ago | 0 |
| 106 | Book 4: Chapter 36: On Concealment and Context 9 months ago | 0 |
| 107 | Book 4: Chapter 37: Sanctioned by Someone Else 9 months ago | 0 |
| 108 | Book 4: Chapter 38: Leverage Is in the Eye of the Beholder 8 months ago | 0 |
| 109 | Book 4: Chapter 39: Fixed in Finality 8 months ago | 0 |
| 110 | Book 4: Chapter 40: Even Gods Can't Do It Alone 8 months ago | 0 |
| 111 | Book 4: Chapter 41: Checkpoint 8 months ago | 0 |
| 112 | Book 4: Chapter 42: All That Glitters 8 months ago | 0 |
| 113 | Book 4: Chapter 43: Terms of Passage 8 months ago | 0 |
| 114 | Book 4: Chapter 44: Investiture and Divestiture 8 months ago | 0 |
| 115 | Side Story: Krampus Cramps My Style 8 months ago | 0 |
| 116 | Book 4: Chapter 45: Never Trust Ann 8 months ago | 0 |
| 117 | Book 4: Chapter 46: Two Heads Are (Sometimes) Better Than One 7 months ago | 0 |
| 118 | Book 4: Chapter 47: Situationship 7 months ago | 0 |
| 119 | Book 4: Chapter 48: Urbane Pretenses 7 months ago | 0 |
| 120 | Book 2: Chapter 49: Orders Obeyed 7 months ago | 0 |
| 121 | Book 4: Chapter 50: Prayer to Pyre 7 months ago | 0 |
| 122 | Book 4: Chapter 51: Playing with Fire 7 months ago | 0 |
| 123 | Book 4: Chapter 52: Consulting the Heavens 7 months ago | 0 |
| 124 | Book 4: Chapter 53: Two Tickets to Paradise 7 months ago | 0 |
| 125 | Book 4: Chapter 54: Awe, Alarms, and All Alone 7 months ago | 0 |
| 126 | Book 4: Chapter 55: The True Origin of Evil 6 months ago | 0 |
| 127 | Book 4: Chapter 56: Behind the Goddess’s Curtain 6 months ago | 0 |
| 128 | Book 4: Chapter 57: The Shattering of Purpose 6 months ago | 0 |
| 129 | Book 4: Afterword: Of Systems and Bad Actors 6 months ago | 0 |
| 130 | CUP Injury and Illness Incident Report (Book 4 Summary) 6 months ago | 0 |
| 131 | Book 5: Chapter 1: Emergency Contact 6 months ago | 0 |
| 132 | Book 5: Chapter 2: Performance Review 6 months ago | 0 |
| 133 | Book 5: Chapter 3: Hello Darkness My Old Friend 6 months ago | 0 |
| 134 | Book 5: Chapter 4: A Scar Made of Dawn 6 months ago | 0 |
| 135 | Book 5: Chapter 5: Sanctum Shenanigans 6 months ago | 0 |
| 136 | Book 5: Chapter 6: The Marks We Make 5 months ago | 0 |
| 137 | Book 5: Chapter 7: Squabbling Before The Storm 5 months ago | 0 |
| 138 | Book 5: Chapter 8: Built and Broken 5 months ago | 0 |
| 139 | Book 5: Chapter 9: Reading Between the Lines 5 months ago | 0 |
| 140 | Book 5: Chapter 10: The Wound and the Lie 5 months ago | 0 |
| 141 | Book 5: Chapter 11: The Ghost Beneath the Guilt 5 months ago | 0 |
| 142 | Book 5: Chapter 12: Terms of Trust 5 months ago | 0 |
| 143 | Book 5: Chapter 13: Containment Is Not Enough 5 months ago | 0 |
| 144 | Book 5: Chapter 14: A Demon's Uncle 5 months ago | 0 |
| 145 | Book 5: Chapter 15: And the Cat Came Back 4 months ago | 0 |
| 146 | Book 5: Chapter 16: Credence 4 months ago | 0 |
| 147 | Book 5: Chapter 17: Clearing the Air 4 months ago | 0 |
| 148 | Book 5: Chapter 18: No More Hiding Under a Rock 4 months ago | 0 |
| 149 | Alternate Universe: Book 1: Chapter 7: The Interview [That Never Happened] 4 months ago | 0 |
| 150 | Book 5: Chapter 19: What Was Taken 4 months ago | 0 |
| 151 | Book 5: Chapter 20: All Done in Whose Name? 4 months ago | 0 |
| 152 | Book 5: Chapter 21: Conflict of Interest in My Favor 3 months ago | 0 |
| 153 | Book 5: Chapter 22: Priority Target 3 months ago | 0 |
| 154 | Book 5: Chapter 23: Surviving Purely Out of Spite 3 months ago | 0 |
| 155 | Book 5: Chapter 24: Risk Factors 3 months ago | 0 |
| 156 | Book 5: Chapter 25: Without a Second Thought 3 months ago | 0 |
| 157 | Book 5: Chapter 26: Contingency Planning 2 months ago | 0 |
| 158 | Book 5: Chapter 27: Closing the Distance 2 months ago | 0 |
| 159 | Book 5: Chapter 28: Old Friends Again 2 months ago | 0 |
| 160 | Book 5: Chapter 29: The Right Dance Partner 2 months ago | 0 |
| 161 | Book 5: Chapter 30: Out of Sight 2 months ago | 0 |
| 162 | Book 5: Chapter 31: By Any Other Name 2 months ago | 0 |
| 163 | Book 5: Chapter 32: Prince in the Dark 2 months ago | 0 |
| 164 | Book 5: Chapter 33: Where Nobody Knows Your Name 1 month ago | 0 |
| 165 | Book 5: Chapter 34: What Use Is There for Me? 1 month ago | 0 |
| 166 | Book 5: Chapter 35: Letting Go of The Hero 1 month ago | 0 |
| 167 | Book 5: Chapter 36: Small Strides 1 month ago | 0 |
| 168 | Book 5: Chapter 37: First and Final Verdict 1 month ago | 0 |
| 169 | Book 5: Chapter 38: Cardinal Calvary Strike (Patent Pending) 1 month ago | 0 |
| 170 | Book 5: Chapter 39: Expensive Words 1 month ago | 0 |
| 171 | Book 5: Chapter 40: A Hollow Trophy 27 days ago | 0 |
| 172 | Book 5: Chapter 41: A Familiar Visage 20 days ago | 0 |
| 173 | Book 5: Chapter 42: The Cat's Out of the Bag 16 days ago | 0 |
| 174 | Book 5: Chapter 43: Three Days? That's Tomorrow! 13 days ago | 0 |
| 175 | Book 5: Chapter 44: Rules of Engagement 11 days ago | 0 |
| 176 | Book 5: Chapter 45: War, What Is It Good For? 9 days ago | 0 |
| 177 | Book 5: Chapter 46: Head and Heart Re-alignment 7 days ago | 0 |
| 178 | Book 5: Chapter 47: Disposable 11 minutes ago | 0 |