The story in the Spellbound universe continues... and while there are some stories that must come in a certain order, I have some leeway in others where some could probably be written out of order (and I'll number them correctly once they're all written and I can edit the series as a whole)...

So, my question to you, my lovely readers is... Which story would you like to read next?

In my outline, the next story after Bowstrings & Velvet will be one that takes place during the Championship Games (but obviously Damask & Deception is already written even if it takes place a while later). The main character is the female spy Boreas brought with him (Maize, who had once been Felix's chambermaid).

Other options include the story about Rain, the new adept at Highglaive (who we met in the short story A White Rose... which I want to rewrite to age her up and up the tension between her and Ereptus, but that's beside the point)... Castel's story... Felix's little sister Amira's story...

None of them has a proper blurb other than Felix's little sister's story since I once started on it... but here's a little information on each:

(Tentative title as I might find something else.)

Maize is an undercover spy at the Championship Games, there to weed out potential assassins among the competitors gathered from all over Erya. It's the perfect opportunity for her to work on her personal goal as well: to find her father's killer. With so many of the Spymaster's agents attending, she's hoping to find the man who murdered her father all those years ago. The key to the mystery might lie with the contestant everyone else appears to fear...

Caam has one mission: win the Games to earn enough money to buy his own plot of land. Then he can retreat from a world that has treated him like a monster his entire life. Half elf and half... something, he doesn't fit in anywhere. Being attracted to the nosy human asking him more questions than he's comfortable with is definitely not part of his plan.

Four years ago, Ereptus abandoned Rain in the City of Messina to be trained at Highglaive with the Sorcerers, and she's never forgiven him.

When the roguish thief suddenly reappears in Messina to assist her when she's attacked by a band of thugs, all the hurt and anger is brought to the surface and all she wants is for him to leave her alone. Something he refuses to do until he knows she's safe.

After spending the last two years at Fort Mael at the base of the mountain pass between the Dreadlands and the lands of Erya, setting up a military presence and refurbishing the fort into something inhabitable, Castel is shocked to find a person from his past in his quarters.

Sorceress Isobel.

The woman who saved the world. The woman he simultaneously dreads seeing and wants more than anything. The woman who occupies both his secret dreams and his most terrifying nightmares.

Amira yearns for adventure and romance, but as the princess and sole heir to the Kingdom of Ler, she's bound by duty. Hoping to secure her a husband, her meddling father has invited fellow royalty and nobles to a grand celebration of her coming of age—or rather a masked marriage market. Among the conscripted suitors, Amira has little hope of finding a love match. At this point, someone she doesn't actively hate will do. Then she meets a prince unlike any other...

When less-than-charming Prince Pan is tasked with winning over the popular princess, he seems doomed to fail. Until a case of mistaken identity offers castle guard Wick—the prince's former whipping boy—the out he's always wanted: freedom in return for keeping up the charade of pretending to be Pan and winning the princess' favour. If she names the Prince of Lyndor as her choice, Wick will never have to see Pan again.

Wanting to get as far away from all royalty as possible, Wick must charm a princess. But when courteous bows turn into battles, Wick must survive both love and lances.