The Knightess of the Realm Saga

Epic Fantasy with a helping of Sugar and a spoonful of Spice
(politics, economics... and snark - but still nice!)

Serious, funny, and spell-binding: you will fall in love with these characters!

Suggested reading order is left-to-right: begin with

The next book in the Saga - An Altogether-Curious Altercation: Book ONE of the Secrets of Dragon Mountain - will be available in September 2024.


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Just FYI - the Knightess of the Realm Saga is going to be published as a series of MINI-SERIES. Covers and titles are in the process of being updated. The idea is to give some amount of CLOSURE to each phase of the story.

A Not-So-Simple Mission is now Book One of the three-book mini-series - which is now COMPLETE!

Our next mini-series is - the first book is An Altogether-Curious Altercation An All-Too-Obvious Choice is currently scheduled for January 2025 (because the prequel novella Scaredy Cat is scheduled for release in December 2024!

A Not-So-Sacrificial Maiden


Left orphaned by a magickal attack,
seventeen-year-old Karana petitions
the king to allow her to train as a knight
so that she can fight the evil wizard,
rather than being turned over to him in chains
as a sacrificial maiden.

The Fall of Taridawil:

A Knightess of the Realm Story Collection


...Kefen and Ivan meet as pages
...Master Felerico figures out how to handle Kefen
...King Theolore meets the Evil Wizard Henig
...Queen Marlerite faces her worst nightmare
...and Rufous gets to tell his side...

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Out of the Woods... Hopefully


Sixteen-year-old Karana has to figure out survival
alone in the dreaded Forest of Ryylyn
following the murder of her parents.

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The next three books are The Heir's Journey mini-series

A Not-So-Simple Mission


The three young knights, Karana, Kefen, and Ivan,
sort out their personal relationships while
guarding the Crown Princess on an important journey.
It's harder than it seems.

An Entirely-Unexpected Revelation


Did Karana and Kefen - and Princess Karivas and Lady Mitarr - survive being swept overboard?
Can Ivan cope until he finds them?
Can they really make a 'triad-marriage' work out??
You can expect some Entirely-Unexpected Revelation...
...because you never know quite what will happen on the Goddess' Own Isle....

An All-Too-Surprising Homecoming


They say you can't go home again...
But Karana has to try!




The next books are The Secrets of Dragon Mountain mini-series

An Altogether-Curious Altercation


Karana, Kefen, and Ivan, set out on their journey
to deal with the (possibly) rogue dragon that
has been kidnapping young people from around
the Realm.
But it may cost them more than they are willing
to pay...

Ten thousand years of planning, and it all comes down to one young woman...

House Metreedi selects the leaders of its mercantile empire based not on lineage, but ability – and most particularly the ‘ability’ to ‘think sideways,’ leaving a trail of ‘creative destruction’ in their wake. For ten thousand years they have used these skills to protect the Turquoise Empire – and now its remnants and descendants – under a Divine Onus.

Sixteen-year-old Karana has shown a talent for ‘sideways thinking’ since her earliest years and The Family expects her to follow her father as the Head of House Metreedi. Her own ambition is to follow her mother as a legendary sea-captain for The Family… and her entirely secret dream is to own her own ship free of any schedule or fleet and explore beyond the Merutian Sea.

Her parents’ murder by an Evil Wizard sets in motion a series of events that take her in directions even this ‘sideways thinker’ could never have imagined, beginning with becoming a knight in the northern king’s court where women are expected to merely sit and embroider.

Old assumptions and attitudes watch out! ‘Hurricane Karana’ is passing through!



Coming in January 2025 - the next Knightess of the Realm novel!
An All-Too Obvious Choice Book TWO of the Secrets of Dragon Mountain (A Knightess of the Realm Novel)
Where Karana and her Companions have to figure out how to deal with the dragons who have abducted them... and what this will mean to their relationship. The mysterious Muse of Dawil hinted to them that Big Changes are on the way… Stay tuned to find out!

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