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New Short Story Available: "Improper Ideology"

A quiet honeymoon in Spiceport. What could go wrong?

Gwendolyn, a Goblin scholar exiled from her homeland and Hendrik, a renegade Human Alchemist, have earned a honeymoon with no monsters, no cursed forests, and no ancient horrors.

Just books.

Books, of course, are where the trouble starts.

On the voyage to Spiceport, the couple shares a ship with Chancellor Harlan, the newly appointed head of the Human University. Harlan has firm views on which ideas deserve to survive, and he has no patience for inconvenient evidence or for scholars who question doctrine.

His destination is Falconridge Hall, home of Duchess Hailey and her remarkable library of rare accounts from the Human Kingdom's earliest years. Some scholars call it a treasure. Harlan calls it a fraud, and he intends to prove it by ruining the Duchess and burying her books with her reputation.

But when a library is threatened and the truth is on trial, a historian and an alchemist can't simply turn the page. Armed with sharp minds, steady nerve, and one deeply questionable alchemical invention, they set out to protect the collection, outmaneuver a powerful rival, and show that knowledge withers when dogma takes the place of curiosity.

No swords. No sorcery. Just two scholars, one stubborn Duchess, and a fight over what counts as truth.

Improper Ideology is a warm, witty fantasy of love, friendship, and academic intrigue, set in a world of Humans, Goblins, Ogres, Elves, merchants, and adventurers. It's perfect for readers who enjoy clever protagonists, found family, and stories where wit beats power.

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