Greetings Gentlereaders!
In our previous post, we defined the 'cozy romantasy' as a tale in which an amorous relationship is a major feature if not central to the story. The 'cozy' prefix is to suggest the story does not contain much in the way of the bugbears of sex and violence - at least not of the graphically depicted variety.
Now let us introduce this forthcoming cozy romantasy, due out next month.
(*By now you likely have come to the conclusion of A TIME OF KINGS - the central epic of the Medieval America Trilogy - and crave more. Know now that Baron Haron is the grandson of old Prince Jack.)
Here is the nutshell: Young Haron, a Baron by birth (his father was a Duke) feels out of place in the Court setting of Chicageaux in 3095. He fancies obtaining a wife who would set him aright. Barring that success, he dreams of going on a journey, of doing mighty deeds and then returning to tell tales of those deeds. The way the world turns, Haron is thwarted in obtaining a bride and thus turns to a new friend, a common farmer named Stewt, to help him partake of the journey...a journey to find a suitable wife. Or else do deeds worthy of telling.
Yet there is no happy ending here, not only a few chapters in, oh no! Haron seeks a bride still and so encounters one slightly older washer woman with a stern heart: Nelda, a cousin of Haron's friend, Stewt. She has her own designs: to find a fit husband who would bring her out of the laundry drudge. Yet the brash young Baron is not her type. Even so, hearing the plan for a journey, she joins Haron and Stewt in travel as she seeks her own partner in wayward towns across the Ioway territory.
For in that far future, much we know today no longer abides. Disasters, catastrophes, vain statehood and its plagues and wars, have wreaked the continent. Yet all is not lost, for as we come together we find much can be renewed, much can go on.
And so...you are certainly wondering...will these two persons with strong determination ever come together? That is the mystery of the story, is it not? Readers should be prepared to be surprised through twist after twist - for we know not any Mary Sue nor any of her plain and simple sisters.
Most of all, the tales we tell and those tales which are passed on and on and on to each generation, are lessons for us all. What shall we do when all has been said and done but tell tales of what we've said and what we've done?
BARON HARON TELLS HIS TALES arrives in November 2026 to conclude the Medieval America Trilogy, a trilogy by similar setting; all stand-alones that can be read in any order.
Meanwhile, work continues on the next novel, set 100 years after the end of BARON HARON. More in a future post.
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