Titan Mage Havoc and the Frigid Flame is now live on Royal Road and Scribble Hub!
SURPRISE, Y’ALL! 😄 I’ve been meaning to give Royal Road and ScribbleHub a try for a while, and after Catgirls from Outer Space‘s delayed pre-order kerfuffle on Amazon, figured I might as well try it with my next book.
That said, Titan Mage Havoc and the Frigid Flame has now started on both sites! 😀 The version posted there will be the polished, edited version, so there will be some slight differences between that one and the version posted on Patreon.
Also, because of site rules, Royal Road’s version is Fade-to-Black, while ScribbleHub’s is the official … NOT Fade-to-Black version.
The first 15 chapters will drop today (which, technically, is the first 7 on Patreon, since I split up that version to proper webnovel length), with a chapter to follow at 12pm every day until completion! 😄
Enjoy!
BLURB AND STUFF:
Before the Blue Heron … there was the Indigo Gryphon.
Titan Mage Orion “Rion” Havoc has a reputation to match his name—and that’s exactly what the captain of the airship Indigo Gryphon is looking for.
The world of Haven is an adventurer’s paradise, brimming with mysterious ruins, ancient artifacts, and dangerous secret powers the Arcane Index’s combat archaeologists just can’t help but unleash. Fortunately, the Index has a protocol for that, and it involves giant mechs called titans—and their pilots, the titan mages.
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When mousy archaeologist Mery Arkady hires the Indy for an expedition to the lost city of Aeterna, Rion fully expects danger and derring-do. He even expects her to have more secrets than she’s letting on.
What he doesn’t expect is to be joined by Sanja Grimes—a rough and tumble titan mage, a vigorous partner in rank and in bed … and the one who got away.
Nor did he expect their shared academy rival Nepherik Damian Oldershaw to show up, suspiciously interested in Mery’s expedition and as vicious as he is vindictive.
Even in an adventure that takes them through monster-infested ruins, sky pirate territories, untamed jungles, and lost cities, their greatest threat might be from their own pasts.
WARNING: Titan Mage Havoc is a fun mecha fantasy adventure where the hero saves the day and gets all the girls. (So don’t read it and then complain about the spice. Y’all know exactly what you’re getting into.)
AUTHOR’S NOTE:
Titan Mage Havoc is a bit of an odd duck, as my series go.
It started as a love letter to Clive Cussler-style action-adventure, just with giant robots and a James Bond-style serial mono-romance … but I’m a harem author, after all, and apparently I just can’t suppress that harem instinct.
My characters also live so vividly in my head, I frequently say they write themselves. The archaeologist Mery was supposed to be a one-book girl, but about halfway through this one, she decided, “Nope, I’m coming back for another.” Around that same time, many other women I’d intended as potential LIs started saying the same thing.
But I liked what I’d already written enough that I didn’t want to restructure it as a traditional harem novel.
Havoc, then, is a slight twist on the genre you know and love.
In it, the MC of course gets all the girls, but the road to those romances is a little more complex than in a typical harem. Mery is an absolute, unsubtle ride-or-die for MC titan mage Rion–and while fellow titan mage Sanja is ride-or-die, too, her romance is a bit more … complicated. (Also, technically this book ends as a menage rather than a strict MFFF+ harem, but it will grow to a true harem in subsequent books.)
Also, rather than a straightforward single-point-of-view storyline, you get the perspective of Rion’s engineer and brother-in-all-but-blood Sevas, exploring their strong friendship–and a secondary, slow burn romance between Sevas and their captain’s daughter, Aster.
The result is a veritable variety pack of relationship types–romantic, familial, and found familial–but still wrapped in the context of a big stompy robot action-adventure. It’s a little different from what you’re used to from Titan Mage, but I hope you enjoy it!
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TROPES AND CONTENT WARNINGS:
- Extra Spicy Fast Burn Romance (Mery & Rion)
- Complicated Spicy Medium Burn Romance (Sanja & Rion)
- Slow Burn Idiots-to-Lovers Romance (Aster & Sevas)
- Hot Archaeologist Glasses Girl (Mery)
- Hot Mech Pilot Girl with a Dark Past (Sanja)
- Hot Magitek Engineer (Aster)
- Smut with Feelings
- Everyone’s a Badass
- Mecha Progression
- Brotherhood
- Found Family
- Depictions of Physical Disability and Chronic Pain
