by countingfoxes
A honey that looks like blood and tastes like tears. Melody had the rarest honey in all the lands, but she lived a quiet and peaceful life. Until one day, a beautiful goblin shows up on her doorstep and offers the deal of a lifetime.
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #14
3d
#3
7/3/2026
Peak #14
38d
#2
6/16/2026
Peak #23
17d
#1
3/1/2026
Peak #22
107d
Rank updated 15 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 15 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#6824 of 6,878 · 6774 below #50
By genre
beats 60% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 49% 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.
At this conversion, the Fantasy Rising Stars bar (≈10 new followers/day) costs about 1.9k views/day — the story currently gets ~4.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 2–4 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
