The Final Boss is my Employee

Rurik Vance sank his retirement, his house, and three loans he couldn’t cover into a three-story gaming cafe in rural Kentucky. It was the best thing he’d ever built, and nobody came. On the morning the bank came to take it, the street outside his window turned into a different world.[ Establishment relocated. ][ You may co-opt one individual in line of sight as your first employee. ][ Choose carefully. ]He picked the woman standing in the road. He didn’t know she was six hundred years old. He didn’t know she’d ended four kingdoms, or that every prophecy on the continent was counting down to the week she’d decided to finish the job. He knew she was the only one out there who wasn’t screaming, and he needed somebody to work the door. She took the job for a reason he wouldn’t understand for weeks. The shop had a story in it she hadn’t finished. Nobody bothers to explain the rest of the contract to him. It holds while the business stays solvent. Miss rent, and the world’s most patient apocalypse goes back to work. His customers have discovered fiction. The Silvered Company and the chapter house have taken opposing sides on which girl the archer should marry. The argument’s already left the building. Somebody’s proposed a duel. Rurik knows how the book ends. He won’t tell them. It’s on the shelf. Read it. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Final Boss is my Employee — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠