The Trials of Carpenter
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How had one choice gone so horribly awry? Molly Carpenter is on the run, trying to evade her parents and wizardly friends of the family. All she knows for sure is that life is bad when the devil on your shoulder sounds reasonable, and the one playing the lyre sounds suspiciously like Harry Dresden. AU: Cannon Divergence from Death Masks onward.
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- Part 1 of The Trials of Carpenter
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For two years there had been one question dominant on everyone’s mind. Was Molly still alive? Daniel Carpenter is determined to find out. One choice launches him into a world of magic, warlocks, and monsters as he fights to uncover what happened to his sister. Canon divergence from Dead Beat onward, a companion fic to Mea Culpa.
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- Part 2 of The Trials of Carpenter
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The Red Court is gone but a new threat looms.
The Winter Knight is missing and with him his apprentice, Daniel Carpenter. A dangerous agent of Winter turns up injured and all signs point to a deadly assassin to blame for all of it. Molly must go toe to toe with an old friend turned foe...and try not to die in the process.
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- Part 3 of The Trials of Carpenter
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There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance. -Spider Robinson
Takes place several years post-Mea Culpa and three to four months pre-Memento Mori.
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- Part 4 of The Trials of Carpenter
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Sometimes Molly envies the dearly departed. Dying is easy. Living is a real bitch.
It seems the world is now divided into two timelines—Before Dresden's Death and After Dresden's Death. BDD wasn't perfect, but it was a damn sight safer than ADD, where every creepy crawly wants to carve out a piece of Chicago real estate. Armed with what she can scrape together and the backing of a notorious mobster, Molly is doing what she can to keep her town safe. But often, it's too little, too late. The Fomor are loose, and it seems only a matter of time before one of them punches her ticket, dealing another devastating loss to the Carpenter Family.
Worse, the bulk of the Brighter Future Society refuses to put their trust in the city's new, darker magical mascot. You know your life has gone downhill when the only sympathetic ear belongs to Gentleman John Marcone. But catching a ride in hell's handbasket seems par for the course. Sometimes, she's pretty sure she never got off. An assortment of short stories pre and post-Ghost Story.
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- Part 5 of The Trials of Carpenter
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Molly's life is about to be blown all to hell. Literally.
Dark energy is building beneath Harry's island, threatening to destroy everything in its path. Harry's imminent arrival in Chicago looks to be the one bright spot in an otherwise bleak future. But when the Winter Knight arrives, he brings problems of his own, the chief among them, his mission. Do the impossible. Kill an immortal. The clock is ticking, and they have precious little time to puzzle out Mab's riddle before the worst happens.
Molly only knows one person who may be able to get the job done, but the price of calling for aid may be too steep. After all, what's more precious than your soul?
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- Part 6 of The Trials of Carpenter
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Every day is a new and potentially deadly challenge when you're the self-appointed protector of Chicago, beholden to a mafia kingpin and a Freeholding Lord under the Unseelie Accords. Especially when said kingpin happens to be your lover and uneasy ally. Molly Carpenter knows that climbing into bed with the devil comes with consequences, she just never imagined they'd turn out this hellish...
Summoned to Marcone's office in the wee hours, she discovers that her services as his vassal have been auctioned off to the Winter Lady. The mission seems straightforward. Travel to Unalaska with the newly minted Winter Lady and help her defeat a force that Molly has only ever heard referenced in the works of Lovecraft. Simple, if you can sort through all the tentacles and non-euclidean geometry, right?
Wrong. The mission turns out to be a diversion with only one purpose. Keep Molly out of Chicago at all costs. When she discovers the Winter Knight is in her town and in cahoots with Nicodemus Archeleone, she takes the first Way back home, determined to help. But the situation is more complex than it first appears, and the reason for Marcone's deception brings everything she thought she knew down around her ears.
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- Part 7 of The Trials of Carpenter
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There's one thing that Molly Carpenter knows for sure—breakups are easier when there are no demons involved.
As the summer sun broils Chicago's streets, members of every supernatural nation converge on the city to propose peace. Molly is determined to hunker down in her apartment and wait out the political storm, but fate has other plans. The plight of a dear friend drags her out of self-imposed solitude and back into the wide world of supernatural dealings. The best way to reach her goal is on the arm of the last man on earth she should fraternize with—Gentleman John Marcone.
But a jailbreak, deceitful lover, the shadow of a fallen angel, and the wardens of the White Council are the least of Molly's worries. An ancient enemy has declared open season on Chicago, and she's brought an army. The Last Titan can only be felled by a heavenly power...or an infernal one. Molly faces a trolley problem of epic proportions. The fate of one soul versus the survival of three million more. A simple equation...unless that soul is your own.
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- Part 8 of The Trials of Carpenter
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After the Second Fall, Uriel and Lasciel have a heart-to-heart.
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- Part 9 of The Trials of Carpenter
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AU of an AU. Molly, Lash, and Michael never made it off the island in Mea Culpa. A very grimdark game begins. Michael/Nicodemus if you squint. Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.
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- Part 10 of The Trials of Carpenter
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AU of an AU. Molly didn't go to Nicodemus. To heal Hannah, she surrenders Lasciel's coin until she can find another to replace it.
Meanwhile, a clue to her whereabouts presents itself in Chicago. Their mission? Contact Michael Carpenter.
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- Part 11 of The Trials of Carpenter
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"What happened to you?" I wondered aloud.
She laughed. "The same thing that happened to you. A woman."
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- Part 12 of The Trials of Carpenter
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Companion piece to Closing Time.
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- Part 13 of The Trials of Carpenter
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Michael flipped another pancake. He wouldn't quite meet my eyes. Perhaps he feared he'd tip forward into them. He had every reason to be wary of me. I'd tried to kill him, more than once. But like his daughter, he had offered acceptance in his own, limited way.
Casus Belli post script.
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- Part 14 of The Trials of Carpenter
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- Part 15 of The Trials of Carpenter