Story one
File Under Freedom
Sharp, emotionally precise, and alive to reinvention, this story moves where freedom, longing, and consequence meet.
Book club invitation
Enter the Writers’ Circle
Three stories brought you here.
Three voices. Three lives in motion. Three names you can read — but not entirely trust.
What you are holding is not separate from The Rating Game. It is part of its larger literary world: a place shaped by ambition, reinvention, intimacy, power, and the stories people tell in order to survive themselves.
Pen name one
Harper Lane
A voice of reinvention, freedom, and consequence.
Pen name two
S. V. Wray
A voice of inheritance, identity, and the life we choose to claim.
Pen name three
C. C. Min
A voice of memory, atmosphere, intimacy, and transformation.
The stories
Three writers. Three masks.
These stories were written from inside the world of The Rating Game. Each one appears under a pen name. Each one carries its own cadence, obsessions, emotional weather, and private logic. Your book club’s first task is simple: read closely enough to ask who is really behind the page.
Story two
The Crown We Never Chose
Elegant, reflective, and deeply human, this voice lingers around healing, identity, inheritance, and self-definition.
Story three
The Island Beneath Her Feet
Atmospheric and intimate, this story blurs love, memory, and transformation until realism begins to feel slightly haunted.
The mystery
Can your book club solve the writers’ challenge?
A quiet secret runs beneath the stories.
These writers may know each other.
Some voices echo across books. Some emotional fingerprints reappear where you least expect them. Some stories begin in one place and reveal themselves much later.
If your group sensed connections, you were meant to.
- Each short story was published under a pen name.
- Each pen name belongs to a writer inside The Rating Game world.
- Your group’s job is to decide who wrote what — and why.
Submit your club’s theory.
Once your group has read all three stories, send your best guesses by email.
Include your book club name, your three guesses, and the clues your group noticed.
- read all three short stories
- compare voice, theme, and emotional fingerprints
- send your theory when your group is ready
Watch the world move
Book club trailers and promos
Rating Game Logo 04
A visual gateway into the shared world behind the books, stories, and discussion path.
Wily Veronica Westcott
Author, strategist, and puppet master energy for groups reading the world beneath the surface.
Discussion materials
Download the Book Club Materials
Use the one-pagers and companion links to introduce your group to the authors, the story world, and the larger reading path.
Em Green + The Rating Game
The main one-pager for book clubs entering The Rating Game through Em Green and the companion story-world materials.
Download One-PagerSean O’Leary Books
A separate one-pager for groups interested in Sean O’Leary’s wider catalog, author visits, and discussion options beyond this series.
Download Sean’s One-Pager
Begin Book One
Interested book clubs who wish to participate in naming the hidden authors can request a limited free eBook access code for Book One of The Rating Game.
Include your book club name and approximate number of readers. Availability is limited to small group access.
Request Book One AccessCompanion episodes
Watch the Video Series
Explore the companion episodes and watch the larger story world begin to move around the edges.
For romance + beyond
If your group enjoys romance with a speculative edge, visit the Rowan Vale Romantasy Collection for your next discussion pick.
Explore Rowan ValeBook club exclusive
Continue into Book Two
Book clubs that continue into Book Two can request the next level of the experience: a private live Zoom discussion about the world, the characters, the hidden writers behind the stories, and the thread that connects them.
