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I Put the Dungeon in a Teapot cover

I Put the Dungeon in a Teapot

An adult potter accidentally traps a beginner dungeon inside her best teapot. Every cleared room improves the pottery, but the creatures living inside have their own crafting ambitions, turning a profitable discovery into a very small negotiation about whose home it is.

LitRPG
The Dragon Has Cancelled Our Wedding cover

The Dragon Has Cancelled Our Wedding

A dragon refuses to bless the marriage meant to prevent a border war. The adult bride and her supposed enemy must discover what the creature knows before their families turn a broken ceremony into another battle.

Romantasy
The House Has Fallen in Love cover

The House Has Fallen in Love

A window repairer discovers her house moving its rooms closer to the greenhouse next door. Helping two buildings fall in love without trapping their residents forces the human neighbors to discuss the changes they have both been pretending not to want.

Cozy fantasy
The Monster Who Wanted a Portrait cover

The Monster Who Wanted a Portrait

A portrait painter is hired by a monster who has never seen an image made without fear. Every truthful detail changes the creature's body, forcing the artist to ask whether kindness means making someone beautiful or allowing them to remain unmistakably themselves.

Mythic fantasy
The Castle Under My Skin cover

The Castle Under My Skin

An adult tattoo artist wakes with a castle moving beneath the map on her arm. The people inside need a home outside her body, but the architect helping them escape discovers that the original owner designed the refuge to make leaving impossible.

Epic fantasy
The Dragon Who Was Afraid of Butterflies cover

The Dragon Who Was Afraid of Butterflies

An adult dragon baker is frightened of the butterflies gathering around his flower-shaped cakes. A patient moth helps him make room for small visitors without pretending courage means never feeling nervous.

Children's book
The Map Is a Hungry Animal cover

The Map Is a Hungry Animal

A cartographer inherits a living map that eats the places it cannot understand. A smuggler offers to guide her through a city already half swallowed, if she helps him find the person whose name the map keeps refusing to draw.

Adventure
My Grandmother Owns the Dungeon cover

My Grandmother Owns the Dungeon

An adventurer discovers the unbeatable dungeon belongs to her grandmother, who redesigned it for accessibility and has accidentally made it profitable. A dungeon surveyor helps them defend the new rules when the guild demands more traps and fewer comfortable places to sit.

LitRPG
A Kingdom Built from Our Bad Dreams cover

A Kingdom Built from Our Bad Dreams

An adult dream-builder and an enemy knight discover their kingdom's walls are made from nightmares stolen from ordinary sleepers. Saving the city requires returning its people's dreams without letting the lovers become its next prison.

Romantasy
The Witch Who Forgot to Be Ominous cover

The Witch Who Forgot to Be Ominous

A retired witch moves to a village expecting respectful terror and receives a casserole instead. Finding a new purpose means admitting she is very good at helping people and rather tired of making it look frightening.

Cozy fantasy
The Goddess Who Borrowed My Grandmother's Shoes cover

The Goddess Who Borrowed My Grandmother's Shoes

An adult cobbler lends a forgotten goddess the shoes her grandmother wore through a lifetime of ordinary work. The goddess discovers that understanding the village requires walking at a pace no worshipper has ever demanded of her.

Mythic fantasy
The Goose Owns the Bank cover

The Goose Owns the Bank

A goose inherits the town bank and immediately eats its debts. The accountant investigating this financial disaster finds that every forgiven loan hatches into an actual possibility, including one future the mayor has spent decades preventing from arriving.

Satire
A Whale, a Hat, and a Rather Small Pond cover

A Whale, a Hat, and a Rather Small Pond

An adult whale follows a lost hat into a pond too small for a proper visit. A practical duck helps her find a way to meet an old friend without asking everyone else to move out.

Children's book
The Sea Has an Upstairs cover

The Sea Has an Upstairs

A salvage diver follows a staircase rising from the seabed and finds another ocean above the clouds. Returning a missing crew requires learning which sea has been borrowing the other's tides, before two coastlines arrive in the same place.

Adventure
My Dinosaur Has a Side Quest cover

My Dinosaur Has a Side Quest

A mount trainer discovers her dinosaur companion has been accepting quests without her. Following its strange errands reveals a monster civilization hidden beneath the player economy, and a rescue mission whose rewards have nothing to do with experience points.

LitRPG
The Crown Has a Favorite Liar cover

The Crown Has a Favorite Liar

An adult illusionist is hired to impersonate a queen who wants to disappear. Falling for the real queen forces both women to decide whether the kingdom needs a better performance or a truth it can survive.

Romantasy
The Last Dragon Is a Houseplant cover

The Last Dragon Is a Houseplant

A botanical conservator discovers that a neglected office fern is the final stage of a dragon's life cycle. An indoor gardener helps her keep it alive while developers prepare to replace its building, unaware that flowering would give the city wings.

Cozy fantasy
The Sword Wants a Divorce cover

The Sword Wants a Divorce

A retired champion discovers her enchanted sword wants to choose a different wielder. Tracking down the blacksmith who made their bond reveals a promise neither object nor owner understood, and a kingdom dangerously attached to the wrong kind of hero.

Mythic fantasy
The Ocean Is Marching Over the Mountain cover

The Ocean Is Marching Over the Mountain

An adult water engineer discovers the sea climbing toward an inland empire that stole its rain. Preventing a war between landscapes requires listening to the people who have survived on both sides of the drought.

Epic fantasy
The Forest Wants a Day Off cover

The Forest Wants a Day Off

The forest closes for a day because its trees are tired of holding up so many adventures. A bear ranger and a fox picnic cook must help their neighbors enjoy an ordinary meadow, then find a gentler way to return when the forest is ready.

Children's book
The Expedition That Found the Wrong Ocean cover

The Expedition That Found the Wrong Ocean

An adult desert guide leads a rescue expedition toward a familiar oasis and finds an ocean moving beneath the sand. Reaching the missing travelers requires learning a new landscape before the old maps become dangerous.

Adventure
The Phoenix Is Allergic to Glory cover

The Phoenix Is Allergic to Glory

An adult bird keeper inherits a phoenix that refuses a spectacular public rebirth. Protecting its quiet recovery brings together a sanctuary full of creatures tired of being useful symbols.

Cozy fantasy
The Oath Has Fallen in Love cover

The Oath Has Fallen in Love

A spellwright discovers the protective oath she wrote for a soldier has started defending the enemy's village instead. Tracing its change of heart brings her to the adult clockmaker who keeps the village running, and a love that makes obedience look dangerously small.

Romantasy
The Vampire Has Joined the Co-op cover

The Vampire Has Joined the Co-op

A centuries-old vampire joins a housing cooperative to escape the expense of owning a castle. The treasurer and an adult night-shift nurse help him navigate ordinary shared living, until his habit of treating favors as eternal debts threatens the one home he cannot simply buy.

Cozy fantasy
The King Has Been Replaced by a River cover

The King Has Been Replaced by a River

A river engineer is summoned to a coronation where water sits on the throne and speaks in the dead king's voice. Discovering whether it is a fraud or a better ruler requires listening to the villages the palace has always kept downstream.

Mythic fantasy
The Robot Who Wanted a Very Boring Birthday cover

The Robot Who Wanted a Very Boring Birthday

An adult woodland robot asks for a quiet birthday and receives increasingly exciting surprises. Helping its friends understand a small celebration becomes an adventure in asking what someone actually enjoys.

Children's book
Nine Crowns for a Dead Sparrow cover

Nine Crowns for a Dead Sparrow

Nine rulers gather to bury the bird whose migration kept their kingdoms apart. A stable keeper discovers the bird is alive and has been refusing to choose a border.

Epic fantasy
I Hacked My Guardian Angel cover

I Hacked My Guardian Angel

An adult support-class player modifies the protective companion assigned to every citizen. It begins warning her about dangers the system refuses to display. A repair specialist helps her trace those invisible threats to the profitable accidents sustaining their supposedly benevolent city.

LitRPG
The Last Light Is a Laundrette cover

The Last Light Is a Laundrette

When a fog swallows every streetlight in a harbor city, a laundrette remains bright because someone is washing forgotten promises. Its practical owner and a delivery rider must decide which promises deserve returning and which people deserve permission to change.

Cozy fantasy
Every Door in This Castle Leads to You cover

Every Door in This Castle Leads to You

An adult castle architect finds every new doorway opening beside the rival she once abandoned. Rebuilding the castle's paths means learning which connections are chosen and which have become a beautiful trap.

Romantasy
The Island That Needed a Reference cover

The Island That Needed a Reference

A marine surveyor discovers an island applying to join the mainland. To approve it, she must visit the three continents listed as its previous employers.

Adventure
The Squirrel Who Bought a Volcano cover

The Squirrel Who Bought a Volcano

An adult squirrel buys a tiny volcano hoping it will roast his nuts. When the volcano wants to become a fountain instead, the neighbors must find a use for a purchase nobody understood.

Children's book
The King Is a Decoy cover

The King Is a Decoy

A royal double learns every king for three centuries has been a decoy.

Epic fantasy
My Save Point Is on Fire cover

My Save Point Is on Fire

A courier respawns at a safe inn that is slowly burning across every timeline. A fire-suppression mage helps her investigate quests she has already forgotten, and discovers the inn is not resetting them. It is keeping something alive inside the flames.

LitRPG
A Garden for the Last Unwanted Spell cover

A Garden for the Last Unwanted Spell

A practical gardener plants discarded spells behind a closed school of magic. When one grows into the help a neighbor never asked for, she must learn which kindnesses should remain uncast.

Cozy fantasy