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The Lost Ring of Destiny
Publish Date May 28, 2025
Formats: Paperback, eBook (Kindle Unlimited)
Book Two of The Standard Book of Anything Trilogy
After saving her town from certain destruction, Em Strider is languishing. No one in Brookerby needs her help anymore. Longing to feel useful again, she travels the countryside saving strangers from their unbreakable oaths—despite her friend Gram’s reminders that treason is frowned upon.
Gram’s warnings prove wise when the Empress summons Em to account for her crimes. Death is the sentence for treason, but the Empress offers an alternative: find and retrieve the legendary ring of the first Emperor before the winter solstice and Em will be pardoned.
During her search for the long-lost ring, Em navigates a deadly maze, joins a mountain colony of magic users, sees the return of an old enemy, and protects an oppressed northern people at risk of having their history eradicated. Meanwhile, the solstice draws ever closer. With time almost up, will Em find the Lost Ring of Destiny? And if she does, will she deliver it to her unjust sovereign—or follow her conscience into open rebellion?


The Standard Book of Anything Top 5 Finalist: 2024 Kindle Book Awards, Sci-Fi Fantasy category
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The Standard Book of Anything
Publish Date January 24, 2024
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Book One of the Standard Book of Anything Trilogy
Emaline Strider fixes everything that breaks in her small village of Brookerby. When the Warding Tree of Protection crashes to the ground and cripples the town, Em is up for the challenge of finding a solution. As she travels south to the glamourous capital city, she finds magic all around her. A shape-shifting book guides her. A never-empty flask sustains her. An improbable relationship blossoms. But can Em trust magic when her hammer and pliers are infinitely more reliable? When the empress threatens her life and friends double-cross her, magic seems downright dangerous. Suddenly, a simple repair has become a race against the empire to save the only home she has ever known.

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Untitled: Book 3
Estimated Publish Date Fall 2026
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Book Three of the Standard Book of Anything Trilogy
Emaline Strider fixes everything… somehow.
Status as of January 2026: 15% of Draft 1
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