
Tales of the Five #1:
The Levin-Gad
This man may not look like he's about to start a bar fight with Ultimate Evil... but looks can be deceptive.
In this 20,000-word novelette set in the main character through-line of the Door Into... novels, the first man in a thousand years to bear the blue Flame of Power, Herewiss s'Hearn, is now happily married to King Freelorn of Arlen, their lover Segnbora tai-Enraesi, the fire elemental Sunspark and the dragon Hasai. But Herewiss tells none of them why (at a most delicate moment) he must undertake a clandestine mission to the city of Darthis.
His reasons are secret: his intentions desperate. So why does Herewiss wind up spending his whole visit in a tavern? Only the Stuck Pig's indefatigable bouncer, Iras, can learn the reason why... and soon finds herself caught up in a kind of tavern brawl that no one's ever imagined.
The Levin-Gad is the first of five Middle Kingdoms novelettes and short novels being published during 2018-2019, spanning the years between Book 3 of the Tale of the Five, The Door Into Sunset, and the forthcoming The Door Into Starlight.

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This work will not be available at Amazon or other retailers until Q1 of 2020.