The Bone-Grinder's Ledger
A Sword & Sorcery Novella

About this book:

In the salt-rotted marshes of the Iron-Grip hills, warlords don't just owe gold—they owe their souls. And when the supernatural creditors come calling for early foreclosure, Lord Vane doesn't hire a swordsman. He hires Maust of the Grey Quill: a certified auditor whose deadliest weapon is a reed pen, whose armor is a ledger, and who treats damnation as a discrepancy to be reconciled.

Three days until the winter solstice. Three days to audit fifteen years of blood-soaked conquest, find the loophole in a pact signed in blood on a blade's edge, and balance books where the currency is curses and the interest is paid in flesh. But the Keep of the Split Tongue holds more than moldy tapestries and unpaid mercenaries—something ancient stirs in the bone vaults beneath the castle, and the ghostly collectors are already counting their due.

A sword-and-sorcery novella where the battle isn't won with steel, but with forensic accounting, contract law, and the terrifying precision of a man who knows that every debt, even a demon's, must eventually be paid in full.