Róka has been writing professionally for the past 10 years, specializing in fantasy fiction and technical writing. She also does graphic design on request. She spends her free time playing video games, petting her cat and dog, and messing around with HTML and CSS.

When Thiss, a traveling bard, encounters banished Prince Varis and his lackey Reg, who have information on her missing father, she gets swept up into a larger conflict as she helps stage a coup that will determine the fate of kingdoms. But she soon finds that her new allies are no virtuous knights themselves. Will Thiss be able to rise to the occasion, and will she find out what happened to her father?

Chapter 1

The Duel

Nora Compton's pottery shop has a regular visitor. This would be unremarkable, if not for the man's strange appearance and general silence. When Nora follows her curiosity, she meddles in a plot that goes deeper than strange shop visitors. Who is this man, and what does he want with her?

A Midnight Brawl

Before you read:

Some of my fiction writing contains adult language and sequences of intense action. Reader discretion is advised.