It’s official. We’ve entered the Espionage Regency HR Era, and I am not sorry.

Sometimes, inspiration strikes like a thunderclap.

Other times, it arrives as a spam email from your fictional HR department.

This week, I opened my author email and discovered a very serious-looking message titled:

RUTHACASIE Employees Performance Appraisals | Staff ID: ruth
Inside was a link (I didn’t click, don’t worry) and the warning:
Note all names highlighted in red indicate employees to be terminated.

I laughed. Loudly. Because really, if you’re going to threaten me with fictional termination, at least spell “headquarters” correctly.
But instead of deleting it, I thought…

What if this was real?
What if The Order really did have a secret HR branch?
What if Mary-Ann Seaton was under observation?

Fifteen minutes and one Canva session later, I had created a Termination Memo from “The Order – Internal Performance Review.”
The subject?  M.A. Seaton
The infraction?  Interference with Seaton Shipping’s Quarter Report
The action?  Vow Not Yet Enforced

If you’d like to read what Mary-Ann did to earn this level of scrutiny, you can grab the book now,  it’s on sale for $0.99 until October 18, when the full story (and final judgment) is revealed.

If you’d like to read what Mary-Ann did to earn this level of scrutiny, you can grab the book now,  it’s on sale for $0.99 until October 18, when the full story (and final judgment) is revealed.

Ends: October 18, 2025

Link: https://books2read.com/BB-Vow4Viscount

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