The Mortifier

by Emily Moon

While Osham awakes from a slumberous winter, a hero has come to claim themselves as champion and disrupt their peaceful town. Whatever their true motives are, they are keeping them to themselves.

Tori has a simpler goal, to marry Merrijoy, but it’s one that has proven itself impossible. With his father, the alderman, standing in his way, it’s up to Tori to play him at his own game.

Captain Tivold worries that between the new champion and the alderman’s maneuverings, the town might be on the brink of a riot, and he’s not so sure he would do anything differently than the captain he hung in the square twenty years ago for cowardice.

With the sorrower caught in the middle of everything, everyone might be in greater danger than they know

262 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2023

About the author

Emily Moon was born in Australia and grew up in the United States and England. A homebody by nature, she settled in rural Massachusetts with her husband, kids, and menagerie. With a background in criminal justice, she’s now an accidental librarian policing the stacks. Her interests include playing and making video games, fiber arts, arguing with animals and losing, and, obviously, writing.

In her stories, Emily loves to explore the contradictory: the light and dark, the funny and serious, and the irreverent and sincere, with true-to-life characters in fanciful settings and outlandish situations.