When an archivist, Evelyn Hale, accidentally uncovers a centuries-old fae ring her tidy, predictable life collapses into visions of a forgotten war, political lies, and one very irritated art dealer who suddenly has pointy ears and opinions about her safety. The ring shows her the truth. The fae want her silenced. And he... wants to collect his past. Too bad the ring has already decided she's the one who's going to expose everything.

When burnt-out office worker Cassie overworks herself straight into another world, she expects the usual isekai package: gorgeous nobles, dramatic ballroom politics, maybe even a swoony romance route to fix her trash life. Instead, a mysterious system boots up in her vision, one that tracks "Affinity Scores," hands out quests, and helpfully reminds her that her entire reality is stitched together by tropes. At first, it's fun. Easy quests. Pretty outfits. Flirty eye contact. Cassie finally feels... chosen. But the system isn't stable. Routes flicker. NPCs hesitate. A "Questline Not Found" error pops over someone's head. And when Cassie accidentally pushes past her expected script, the world glitches, revealing pieces of something bigger, older, and very aware that she's here. To survive, Cassie must outsmart destiny, navigate dangerously handsome love interests, and resist becoming the perfect protagonist everyone expects. But every choice she makes corrupts the code a little more... and the system is starting to notice. Welcome to your happily ever after. Please ignore the 404 errors.

[Wattys 2022 Shortlist] The Elven battlemage Gynefra Caul-Marrel has fought many foes over her two centuries. Humans have proven the most obstinate, yet they have forgotten the lessons that led to the War of the Great Coalition. That short-lived race has now spread into the shattered former battlefields of that conflict, building villages atop barrows of ancient dead, toiling away in mines better left abandoned. When a plague spreads through their lands, she is dispatched by the Watchful Tower to investigate. The horrors are much worse than she'd imagined. An unholy alliance has formed in the depths below, which threatens to tear apart the fragile order that's existed since the War of the Great Coalition. It's not enough to simply fight-the Great Evil they face requires a unified defense from every realm. Yet even saving human refugees isn't enough to dampen the paranoia of the Inquisition. The grievances between Elves and humanity have been built over millennia and seem impossible to mend. Yet if they cannot succeed, kingdom by kingdom will fall, until the mortal world is swept clean. Under Gynefra's leadership, a new War of the Great Coalition must be waged-yet this time united in struggle against the Twisted One, who threatens to devour their realms.