A secret affair. A disfiguring punishment. A burning need for revenge.

Kyrra d’Aliente has a bad reputation and an arm made of metal.
Cast out of the safe and luxurious world of silk to which she was born, played as a pawn in a game of feuding Houses, Kyrra navigates a dangerous world of mercenaries, spies, and smugglers while disguising herself as a man.

War destroyed her family and the man she loved.
Vengeance is within her grasp.
But is she willing to pay its price?

SPFBO 5 Runner-up!

I’d been ridiculed, rejected, robbed, and almost dismembered, and I’d only been in Liera a week.

Mercenary Kyrra d’Aliente’s homecoming is not as triumphant as she hoped. Her family is dead, her pockets empty, the man she loves missing, and a bunch of out-of-work sellswords want to steal her metal arm. So, when an encounter with an old friend leads to a smuggling job, she’s more than willing to hop on board in exchange for a bag of coins and a little revenge.

But will this mysterious cargo be worth the firestorm it ignites?

Smuggler’s Fortune is a standalone novella that takes place just before Fortune’s Fool, the first novel in the Eterean Empire series and runner-up in Mark Lawrence's 2019 Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off (SPFBO5).