The novel behind A Debt of Foxes

A Debt of Foxes

• Fantasy
• Romance
• Mystery

Lin Ming is the only living clerk in the Bureau of the Unrecorded, an office of the dead, and she owes fourteen lines for striking her father's name from the death roll by mistake. The Bureau assigns a surety to hold against the debt: Nine, a fox with perfect manners, no line in any register and strong opinions about her handwriting. Every case she closes pays one line back. Drawn from tales by Pu Songling, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

50 chaptersChapters 1 to 10 are free.

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Chapters

1. 1The Wrong FormFree
2. 2DeliveryFree
3. 3The Hall of RegistersFree
4. 4A Wedding at MidnightFree
5. 5ThirteenFree
6. 6The TermsFree
7. 7Her FatherFree
8. 8The Altered LineFree
9. 9The Wrong BookFree
10. 10Terms AcceptedFree
11. 11Two SistersLocked
12. 12The TellLocked
13. 13A Wrong VerdictLocked
14. 14MercyLocked
15. 15The Trader's SonLocked
16. 16The Mother's VoiceLocked
17. 17The Drinking CompanionLocked
18. 18Two BooksLocked
19. 19The Laughing GirlLocked
20. 20What's the DifferenceLocked
21. 21Let GoLocked
22. 22The Straw StackLocked
23. 23InspectionLocked
24. 24SuretyLocked
25. 25Song LanLocked
26. 26The TutorLocked
27. 27Who He WasLocked
28. 28LianxiangLocked
29. 29The OfferLocked
30. 30At Her DeskLocked
31. 31The HealerLocked
32. 32ThunderLocked
33. 33Three Missing CasesLocked
34. 34Han's SecretLocked
35. 35The SignatureLocked
36. 36I Was Never Meant to Be HereLocked
37. 37Written DownLocked
38. 38The Last LineLocked
39. 39One LampLocked
40. 40BalanceLocked
41. 41Every Other WayLocked
42. 42He RefusesLocked
43. 43The Forged DeathLocked
44. 44AlliesLocked
45. 45Her Own LineLocked
46. 46The HearingLocked
47. 47The PetitionLocked
48. 48The ExchangeLocked
49. 49UnregisteredLocked
50. 50A Document Signed WillinglyLocked