This year is my year.

Do you like to read alternate timeline fantasy? Do you like detective noir meets eldritch horror meets 1980’s Portland? Mystery? Murder? Really smart mouthed protagonists and their found family?

Man, do I have the book for you:

The Runetech Archives: Bronze & Blood Bronze & Blood is a noir-infused dark fantasy set in an alternate-1980s, half-drowned, aether-powered Portland, Oregon. It follows Fadelias “Fade” Corven, a Resonant runetech who can see and feel the currents of magic threaded through the sinking city’s bones. When he’s framed as an accessory to murder, his attempt to clear his name only drags him deeper into a conspiracy involving mob family secrets, forbidden experiments, and a rising cult devoted to an ancient entity stirring beneath the depths. As Fade hunts for the truth, he must navigate a world where every rune has a cost — and some secrets were never meant to surface. A blend of urban noir, arcane engineering, and creeping cosmic horror, Bronze &Blood launches the world of The Runetech Archives. Ebook and paperback are scheduled for release on March 24, 2026!

My fiancé has put his entire soul into this dream project. He’s done every single thing on his own, from world-building and designing the characters, to editing the book cover and narrating chapters and more. Getting traction on social media has been a bit disheartening for him, self-publishing is not for the weak.

I'm so confident that with more eyes on it, it will take off like wildfire. I may be biased as the Fiancée, but as someone with first privileges to have read the book: it's phenomenal. And that's coming from someone who doesn't normally read the genre. However, my little romance-novel smutty heart has been reliably informed that there may or may not be a spicy intrigue plot coming in the second book...

The full audiobook will be available later this year. Currently chapter previews are live on Spotify.

If this kind of ancient magic, murder, and mystery catches your attention, check out the socials!

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(And, of course, don’t tell him I sent you. I’m trying to be a ✨ cool ✨ fiancée)