On a brief hiatus--planning to return in Spring 2024 to pick up Book 3!
"The Call of Cthulhu" meets The Office: Eldritch hijinks, bureaucratic horrors, and tentacles. Lots and lots of tentacles.
Book 1 is stubbed! If you'd like to pick it up, it's available on Amazon--I've also included a synopsis so you can catch up that way if you prefer. Book 2 will remain on Royal Road through May 2024, and Book 3 will resume posting in February 2024.
The witch of Tophet County has three passions: Chicken Cock Kentucky Bourbon, Amish romance novels, and protecting her true name from the Archons, the chthonic monsters who govern humanity with an iron tentacle. A magical contract binds the witch to work for them in the banal misery of County government--despite her best efforts to get herself fired. When she accidentally pleases her many-armed overlords, the Dread Lord of Human Resources curses her with an unwanted promotion. And, by all hell's devils, it involves meetings.
As the witch enters a new bureaucratic hellscape, she's assigned to lead a task force investigating recent attacks on senior Archons. Her boss offers her a deal: If she solves the case, she can knock fifteen years off her century-long contract. If not, well, she might just find a way to help these mysterious attackers take down the tentaclarchy…
* "Gore" is cartoonish monster violence. Profanity tag is because there's lots of profanity and sophomoric double entendres. Author is an actual sailor. Can't be helped.
Amazing cover art by Sandro Fazlinovic (@empty_i.s on Instagram).