Maxx Whittaker

“My brother Tagan was rigid about is duties, dogmatic. He made it easy to be the wastrel, troublemaking, vice-ridden younger brother. But on our birthdays, or in the winter when all the world was ungodly cold and dead, we’d travel to Berheim for outrageous bets and even more outrageous women. He brought his dice of fortune, which everyone claimed were loaded. The trick was that they were not loaded; he was just that good. So he’d allow the dice to be confiscated, his opponent would lay a ridiculous wager, and Tagan would clean the man’s purse down to the lint.”
― Maxx Whittaker, Temple of Cocidius: A Monster Girl Harem Adventure: Book 1

“Its latch is ornamental, tongue laced with gold and set with tear-shaped rubies. The keyhole decorative with no mechanism inside. I can feel this in the lid’s weight as I pry it open. Whatever is inside must be unimaginable, and whoever it belonged to must be a legendary sonofbitch to not need a lock of any kind.”
― Maxx Whittaker, Temple of Cocidius: A Monster Girl Harem Adventure: Book 1