Can you actually outrun Destiny?
Chauncy has been trying for eight books. Destiny has opinions, stamina, and no boundaries whatsoever. Somebody has to win eventually — and the smart money is very much not on Chauncy.
✨ 8 books of fantasy comedy (a 9th is threatening to happen)
Destiny chose Chauncy to save the world.
His grandmother made him get a job.
But you can't outrun Destiny — especially when she turns up with an unhealthy dose of inappropriate magic and absolutely no sense of decorum.
Eight books. One deeply reluctant hero. A magic system that appears to be holding a personal grudge.
Free in Kindle Unlimited — or read Chapter 1 free right now
Adult fantasy comedy · Rated R · Grown-ups only, please
Reluctant-hero comedy — with a grandmother running interference.
Chauncy just wanted to read his spell books in peace.
He was always a little different: meek, sweet, and utterly certain magic was real, back when everyone else was certain he was odd. Destiny agreed with Chauncy. She marked him as the one who would save everything.
Then Grandma Little stepped in. She raised him, she fears absolutely nothing, and she has precisely zero patience for "chosen one" nonsense. So Chauncy got a job. And Destiny waited. And waited. And eventually got tired of waiting and came to collect him herself — with an armful of magic that has never once behaved.
Beloved by everyone who's ever felt wildly underqualified for their own life.
And that, dear reader, is more or less how the end of the world began.
Four ingredients, eight books, zero dignity
The recipe for consistently ruining Chauncy's day.
Tap a card. Warning: this is the kind of book that makes reading in public a social hazard.
The secret ingredient isn't the jokes. It's that you'll care.
Funny is easy. Funny that gets you a little misty is the whole trick.
Grandma Little's fierce, exasperated love for Chauncy is the beating heart under all the chaos — and the reason readers have stayed for eight books instead of eight chapters. You'll laugh until you have to put the book down. Then, right when you've let your guard down, it'll get you.
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Fair warning — rated R. Expect swearing, mature humor, and magic that lives up to every adjective in these titles. Non-graphic, but very much for grown-ups.
It's the perfect palate cleanser, too — the book you reach for after a brutal grimdark epic, when you need something that reminds you reading is supposed to be fun. Eight books deep, the jokes still land and the characters still matter.
Come for "his grandmother made him get a job." Stay because you genuinely need Chauncy to be okay.
On outrunning fate
"You can't outrun Destiny. You can, however, ignore her long enough to make her deeply unprofessional."
Four questions that will absolutely cost you a night's sleep
The itch.
Comedy this good still leaves you needing to know what happens next. Consider yourself warned — "just one more chapter" is a lie you'll tell yourself repeatedly.
Is Grandma Little the strongest character in fantasy?
No prophecy has survived contact with her. No monster has earned the sheer fear she inspires in her own grandson. It sounds like a joke. It becomes more convincing every single book.
What happens when the wrong spell has to save someone real?
Sooner or later, a magic that never works right runs into a moment that absolutely cannot go wrong. Reader, it is agony — the very best kind — and it's why the funniest series around can also gut you.
How inappropriate can magic possibly get?
The titles climb: Inappropriate → Ridiculously → Ludicrously → Absurdly → Insanely → Chaotically → Furiously → Epically. That's not a bluff. Book nine is genuinely called Disastrously.
At least one of these is already bugging you. There is, conveniently, an entire series that answers it.
The fantasy comedy you've been looking for.
If any of this is your idea of a good time, welcome:
- If Terry Pratchett's Discworld is your comfort read — clever, warm, and quietly wise under the jokes — you'll feel right at home in this one.
- If Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures taught you to love a hapless hero in way over his head — Chauncy is your guy (he'd rather not be, but he's your guy).
- If Douglas Adams proved comedy can carry real stakes and real heart — this series runs on exactly that trick, for eight books straight.
😂Consistently funnyLaugh-out-loud, not "smirks occasionally."
❤️Real heart under itYou'll care about Chauncy. A lot.
📚Eight books, ready nowLove Book 1? Seven more await.
🧼The perfect resetThe palate cleanser between heavy reads.
Reading order · eight books and counting
The whole gloriously inappropriate saga.
Book 1
Inappropriate Magic
Book 2
Ridiculously Inappropriate Magic
Book 3
Ludicrously Inappropriate Magic
Book 4
Absurdly Inappropriate Magic
Book 5
Insanely Inappropriate Magic
Book 6
Chaotically Inappropriate Magic
Book 7
Furiously Inappropriate Magic
Book 8
Epically Inappropriate Magic
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Book 9
Disastrously Inappropriate Magic
In progress · ~25% drafted
Go on. Make a terrible decision.
Start with Inappropriate Magic — free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Give it one chapter. If you snort out loud before the end of it, congratulations: you have seven more books and a very entertaining problem.
4.2/5 on Amazon · 675 ratings
“I loved the quirky cast of characters and the racy humor and innuendo. It was a fun read I couldn't put down. I laughed and even got a little teary eyed a time or two.”— karrie l beardall, Amazon
“Wildly funny and just as wildly irreverent and inappropriate.”— T.S., Amazon
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