Rain-soaked trails, mossy ruins, and the kind of companionship you only earn by sharing a pack and a stubborn sense of wonder—Garnet wouldn’t trade her life on the road for anything. Alongside her parents—Gleb, a gruff, brilliant veteran of a hundred expeditions, and Glerich, a calm scholar whose uncanny sketches can capture a lost age in a few quick strokes—Garnet combs the Wildwoods for forgotten Goblin history. They bicker, they banter, they keep their safety rules… mostly. And when they finally uncover a long-buried site that shouldn’t exist, the three must rely on what families do best: trust, teamwork, and the quiet certainty that no one gets left behind. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Goblin-Queen-Coppercrawlers-Kingdoms-ebook/dp/B0GYM4SGVH?ref_=ast_author_mpb

The Spring Horse Market in Bridgemark is the last place Gada wants to be noticed. A road-worn goblin mercenary with more scars than silver, she only needs a bed for the night—and a sturdy mare she can afford. But when a razor-tongued Elvish bard named Eleanor turns their first meeting into a public sparring match, Gada’s plans for a quiet, anonymous stay go up in smoke—almost literally. Because the market’s prize attraction is an Embermane colt: a rare Flamebound horse coveted by nobles… and dangerously mishandled. When panic sparks into fire, Gada runs toward the flames with bow in hand, while Eleanor answers with music that reaches deeper than sound. Together, they must keep a blazing miracle from becoming a catastrophe—before a single frightened creature ignites the entire fair. In the aftermath, rumors swell, reputations rise, and an outlawed tenderness flickers to life between two women who should never have met—let alone trusted.

Gada is a Goblin mercenary with an archer’s instinct and a warrior’s code. Eleanor is an Elvish bard whose music can bend perception, soothe monsters, and shatter souls. Together they travel the Kingdoms as free mercenaries—and as lovers—caught between political intrigue, ancient magic, and the fragile question of how much love truly demands. When a routine job draws them into forgotten ruins, shadowed cults, and the dangerous schemes of rival powers, Gada and Eleanor are forced to confront more than monsters. Old wars still echo through the Kingdoms, bardic magic hides deadly truths, and every choice threatens to pull them into conflicts that could reshape the balance between Lineages. As secrets surface and enemies close in, the bond between warrior and bard is tested by fear, silence, and the ghosts of past betrayals. Blending intimate romance with high-stakes adventure, Harmony and Resonance explores themes of trust, identity, and chosen family against a backdrop of political tensi...

She believes in a past no one remembers. He hides from a future using some one else's name. Gwendolyn has always trusted in knowledge — even when it cost her everything. Hendrik has learned that knowledge can be lethal. When a long-forgotten text throws them together, they uncover something neither can walk away from: a chance to find the lost legacy of the Goblin Queens, and with it, the truth about a history everyone else has agreed to forget. Their search leads them into the Crystal Forest — a place of breathtaking beauty, ancient danger, and dragons that should not yet be waking. But the greatest threat may not be the journey itself. It may be learning to trust each other before whatever is hunting them catches up. Because Gwendolyn's past hasn't forgotten her. Dragons of the Crystal Forest is the first novel in The Last Goblin Queen, a fantasy romance series.

The first stories of The Last Goblin Queen fantasy series are now available as e-books on Amazon:      * The Dragons of the Crystal Forest, a fantasy romance novel      * Harmony and Resonance, a Sapphic romance novella Plus short stories:      * Embermanes      * Coppercrawlers      * Nyra the Forsaken

A deliberate choice in The Last Goblin Queen is the use of familiar, real-world names rather than heavily stylized fantasy ones. Part of this is readability. Simpler names keep the focus on story and character instead of pronunciation or linguistic decoding. But it also helps avoid the Kingdoms’ cultures feeling like stand-ins for real-world peoples or histories, which fantasy can sometimes drift into unintentionally when names are overly coded or exoticized. In the Kingdoms themselves, Lineage already carries structural weight: Goblin names begin with “G,” Human names with “H,” Ogre names with “O,” and so on. That system does most of the worldbuilding work in terms of identity and origin, so individual names don’t need to do that job as well. The result is a naming approach that stays grounded, keeps characters distinct, and leaves room for the Lineages to feel like people rather than symbols. 

In a world where Alchemy is common, basing a currency on precious metals alone quickly becomes unreliable. After all, what can be made can also be unmade—or worse, copied. Because of this, the most trusted forms of currency in the Kingdoms are those that resist Alchemy entirely: Dragon Scales and Alchemical Glass. Dragon scales are exactly what they sound like—rare, durable, and impossible to alter—and many other coins take their name and shape from them. Rondels of Alchemical Glass, valued both for their resistance and their usefulness in Alchemy, serve a similar role. For everyday trade, most people rely on lower-denomination coins, called scales: small, teardrop-shaped pieces of brass, silver, or gold. While skilled Alchemists can create gold or silver from other materials, doing so is rarely worth the effort or cost, which helps keep these coins in practical circulation.

 Most of the “magic” of the Kingdoms is rooted in Alchemy. It is a learned discipline and does not require any supernatural agency on the part of its practitioners. Alchemy is divided into three branches, each associated with a distinct alchemical material. Distillation uses Elixir and focuses on extracting the essential properties of a substance into a concentrated form. Transformation uses Catalyst and allows one material to be changed into another, sometimes with the potential to revert to its original state. Amalgamation uses the Alchemist’s Flame and enables the combining of unlike materials into a single alloy that retains properties of both. The more advanced the Alchemist, the more abstract the properties they are able to manipulate.

About one hundred years ago, the Goblin Kingdom was ascendant, the center of culture and power for the other Kingdoms: Human, Elvish, Ogre, and Naga. The Goblin Kingdoms were ruled by a long line of wise Goblin Queens. The forces of the Void Cultists however gained a foothold in the Human kingdom, corrupting the Kingdom and allowing the Void to grow in power. The other Kingdoms, along with about half of the Human Kingdom and led by the High Paladins, formed an alliance under the Treaty of Love, but it was almost too late. The forces of the Void fought the allied Kingdoms, and all of the Kingdoms suffered tragic losses. At last, the Goblin Queen Gabrielle fought with the Void’s Disciple directly using the ancient Crown of the Goblin Queens, sacrificing herself to defeat the Void.   Queen Gabrielle was buried in a tomb, along with the crown of the Goblin Queens, at the site of the battle. The Human High Paladins rebuilt the Human Kingdom, vowing that the Human Kingdom would be...