Six years of adventuring have taught Calvin Blackpot two things: monsters are dangerous, and adventurers are idiots.

After one disastrous hunt too many, Calvin quits.

Broke, exhausted and with absolutely no idea what to do next, he accepts a new friend's invitation to watch a wrestling match at The Fortress, a local coliseum. It should be a harmless evening of watching other people get thrown through tables.

Instead, Calvin discovers something astonishing.

Nobody is trying to kill anyone.

The fighters know how to take a hit. They know how to fall. They know when to stop. And, most importantly, they actually seem to be having fun.

For a man who has spent six years fighting monsters for terrible pay, wrestling suddenly looks like the perfect career.

But Calvin isn't the only thing The Fortress has to offer.

There's Theodore and Derrick, the enthusiastic commentators who immediately decide he's destined for greatness. There's a growing cast of larger-than-life wrestlers who are far more complicated than their ridiculous personas suggest. And then there's Alice Church — the Dashing Rogue.

She's agile, theatrical, infuriatingly confident... and apparently determined to make Calvin's life as difficult as possible.

As Calvin finds his feet in the ring, an unlikely rivalry begins to develop between The Black Ranger and The Dashing Rogue. What starts as staged combat soon becomes something neither of them quite knows how to handle.

Because sometimes the greatest adventure isn't surviving the next monster.

Sometimes it's finding somewhere you actually want to stay.

Crushed Beneath the Heel is a fast-paced fantasy comedy romance about wrestling, unlikely friendships, theatrical villains, accidental heroes, and one very tired ranger discovering that life might be worth enjoying after all.

Crushed Beneath the Heel

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