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The Count's Gambit
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 15 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Count of Westfall Fort summons nine representatives from neighboring nations to decide the region's allegiance once and for all. Among them is Pamla Herztavik of Fatela-a disciplined soldier known more for her blade than for her grace in politics.
By morning, the Count is brutally murdered.
The drawbridge is raised in alarm, and the moat swells unnaturally high preventing escape. Westfall Fort seals itself into lockdown, turning stone walls into a prison no one can escape.
Suspicion turns to slaughter as the guests begin to fall, one by one. Every survivor swears innocence while quietly calculating their next move, yet each of them harbor secrets that could make them the likely candidate for the perpetrator of it all.
Pamla is trained for war, not deception-but inside Westfall Fort, steel alone won't keep her alive. As elemental powers flare and the body count rises, she must navigate ambition, manipulation, and a deadly political game designed long before any of them arrived.
Because the Count's death was only the first move.
Inspired by the closed-circle tension of And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, The Count's Gambit is a standalone fantasy mystery novelette where survival isn't guaranteed, and solving a mystery usually opens up more questions than it closes.
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