{"id":3879,"date":"2025-03-06T20:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2025-03-06T20:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:43:03","slug":"necromancer-novella-saved-by-the-rat-now-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/?p=3879","title":{"rendered":"Necromancer novella &#8220;Saved by the Rat&#8221; now wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who didn&#8217;t pick up my 17,000 word contemporary Necromancer story <i><b>Saved by the Rat<\/b><\/i> when it was free, the novella is now available wide &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/SavedByTheRatKaje\">https:\/\/books2read.com\/SavedByTheRatKaje<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SavedbytheRatcover-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SavedbytheRatcover-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SavedbytheRatcover.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meet Robin &#8211; short, bespectacled, young manager of his uncle&#8217;s store and no-one&#8217;s pushover.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Alaric &#8211; temporary employee of said store with more to worry about than a cute, self-important manager. Namely, finding an evil grimoire bound in human skin. <\/p>\n<p>Meet Harry &#8211; Alaric&#8217;s rat familiar with a nose for magic. <\/p>\n<p>Add workplace mutual attraction, a break-in, dark sorcerers, and you have <i>Saved by the Rat<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>This story is intended to stand alone for those not yet familiar with <i>Necromancer<\/i> but it carries the spirit of the series, set in modern days like the <i>Magic<\/i> duo. I hope readers enjoy this lightweight tale. (And tail. My apologies to those not fond of rats. Harry insisted he was <i>not<\/i> a ferret or anything but a proud rat, thank you very much.) On sale for $0.99 (or equivalent) on most vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who didn&#8217;t pick up my 17,000 word contemporary Necromancer story Saved by the Rat when it was free, the novella is now available wide &#8211; https:\/\/books2read.com\/SavedByTheRatKaje Meet Robin &#8211; short, bespectacled, young manager of his uncle&#8217;s store and no-one&#8217;s pushover. Meet Alaric &#8211; temporary employee of said store with more to worry about than a cute, self-important manager. Namely, finding an evil grimoire bound in human skin. Meet Harry &#8211; Alaric&#8217;s rat familiar &#8230; <a title=\"Necromancer novella &#8220;Saved by the Rat&#8221; now wide\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/?p=3879\" aria-label=\"Read more about Necromancer novella &#8220;Saved by the Rat&#8221; now wide\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59,65,29,56],"tags":[66,57,34,37,17],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-releases","category-fantasy","category-novella","category-paranormal","category-short-story","tag-66","tag-fantasy","tag-necromancer","tag-novella","tag-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kajeharper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}