Morgan Giblin

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The city of Lochwall conscripts criminals to serve as its law enforcement in a naive hope of reform. However, taking his late father’s guiding principles to heart, Mak the goblin aspires to be the finest watchman the city has ever known and volunteers of his own volition.Meanwhile, Scrag the bugbear is a professional hitman conscripted into the watch due to sheer rotten luck and a frustrating technicality. Now he wants nothing more than to return to his old life of getting paid to whack bounty targets with his trusty wooden bat and get paid handsomely, as opposed to now, where he smacks petty lawbreakers and gets paid very poorly, and quite frankly, he can’t be arsed with it all.To fulfil some strange watch tradition, these two definitely-not-buddy coppers are assigned as reluctant partners. After they are given the smallest amount of training legally required, they are thrust out onto the streets and get themselves promptly embroiled in an intriguing investigation involving a faerie dust drug ring, volatile wild arcana and rampaging curious beasts.It’s up to these unlikely heroes to uncover the truth of what’s really going on in Lochwall and keep the peace!The Ephemeral Menagerie is a fast-paced, rollicking and humorous fantasy tale, perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett, Nicholas Eames, or J. Zachary Pike.The Ephemeral Menagerie will available on Amazon in both eBook and paperback October 2025!

Cover illustration by João Tardy

It’s Scrag Orngart’s lucky day!As Lochwall's best – and only – Bugbear assassin, he’s got a straightforward contract for once: assassinate a wealthy and provocative journalist.Easy peasy. It has a good payout, too. Suspiciously good…However, Scrag doesn’t consider himself quite so lucky when his orders change last minute. Suddenly, he’s forced into the role of bodyguard and dropped into a citywide game of cat and mouse. A game where the penalty for failure to protect his former target turned enigmatic ally is death.On the run, pitted against his colleagues in the Assassin's Guild, and with a hefty pile of gold - and a complementary fruit basket - up for grabs, Scrag must rely on his wits (limited) and skills (far less limited) and Fate (unreliable) to triumph, or he may never see another dawn againA Killer Kerfuffle is a fast-paced, rollicking, humorous tale, perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett, Nicholas Eames, or J. Zachary Pike._{A Killer Kerfuffle is approximately 20,000 words in length. It is the prequel to the upcoming novel The Ephemeral Menagerie and is available free for subscribers of my mailing list. Sign up now for your free copy in your choice of .ePub or .pdf.}