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You could call it Chataine’s Guardian 2.0
Thirty-five years after the assassination of Henry, Surchatain of Lystra, the province is no more and its capital Westford a shadow of its medieval greatness. With the fever now ravaging the palace, the army, and the town, a new Surchatain has ascended the throne of Westford, requiring a loyalty oath for all his subjects and soldiers.
Efran, Captain of the Red Regiment of the Army of Westford, is Polonti—a member of the brown-skinned, black-haired race generally regarded with contempt by Southerners on the Continent, including many in Westford. Knowing of the loyalty oath required on pain of death, Efran lays plans to leave once he has recovered from the fever himself.
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This series is a distant sequel to The Annals of Lystra (begun in Chataine's Guardian) and The Latter Annals (begun in Nicole of Prie Mer). Readers need know nothing of the previous books to enjoy this story. To introduce this series, I'm offering free pdf and epub downloads of all the stories. Each pdf includes links, pronunciations, maps, and an illustration with notes. (The epubs contain all of the above except maps.)
But Efran is hindered by entangle-ments with the Surchatain’s two daughters—one who despises him and one who adores him.
He is appointed guardian of one Chataine. When the palace begins crumbling on its foundations, Efran takes his charge and a street urchin to an abandoned fortress south of Westford in the midst of wolf territory. While he gathers more homeless children at the fortress, the other Chataine prepares to lead an army against him for the legendary treasure hidden in the desolate Abbey of St. Benedict on the Sea.
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Jan. 23, 2025: Along with the challengers for Efran—Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues and Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal—we have new challengers for Marguerite and Hartshough.
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Jan. 23, 2025: How much say did you have for the design of your book covers? For the Westford Press and Abbey books, 100 percent. For everything before those, zero. And I want to tell you that having control over the cover art made all the uncertainty of striking out on my own worth it.
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