SEQUEL TO WITCHY EYE. Next in series, which debuted with the stunningly reviewed Witchy Eye. Butler delivers another brilliant Americana flintlock fantasy novel.
TOIL AND TROUBLE
Sarah Calhoun paid a hard price for her entry onto the stage of the Empireâs politics, but she survived. Now she rides north into the Ohio and her fatherâs kingdom, Cahokia. To win the Serpent Throne, sheâll have to defeat seven other candidates, win over the kingdomâs regent, and learn the will of a hidden goddessâwhile mastering her peopleâs inscrutable ways and watching her own back.
In New Orleans, a new and unorthodox priest arises to plague the chevalier and embody the curse of the murdered Bishop Ukwu. He battles the chevalierâs ordinary forces as well as a troop of Old World mamelukes for control of the city and the mouth of the great Mississippi River. Dodging between these rival titans, a crew of Catalan piratesâwhose captain was once a close associate of Mad Hannah Pennâgrapples with the chevalier over the fate of one of their mates.
Meanwhile, a failed ceremony and a sick infant send the Anishinaabe hunter Maâiingan on a journey across the Empire to Cavalier Johnsland, to a troubled foster child named Nathaniel. Maâiingan is promised that Nathaniel is a mighty healer and can save his imperiled baby, but first Nathanielâa pale young man with a twisted ear who hears the voices of unseen beingsâmust himself be rescued, from oppression, imprisonment, and madness.
At the publisherâs request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
SEQUEL TO WITCHY EYE. Next in series, which debuted with the stunningly reviewed Witchy Eye. Butler delivers another brilliant Americana flintlock fantasy novel.
TOIL AND TROUBLE
Sarah Calhoun paid a hard price for her entry onto the stage of the Empireâs politics, but she survived. Now she rides north into the Ohio and her fatherâs kingdom, Cahokia. To win the Serpent Throne, sheâll have to defeat seven other candidates, win over the kingdomâs regent, and learn the will of a hidden goddessâwhile mastering her peopleâs inscrutable ways and watching her own back.
In New Orleans, a new and unorthodox priest arises to plague the chevalier and embody the curse of the murdered Bishop Ukwu. He battles the chevalierâs ordinary forces as well as a troop of Old World mamelukes for control of the city and the mouth of the great Mississippi River. Dodging between these rival titans, a crew of Catalan piratesâwhose captain was once a close associate of Mad Hannah Pennâgrapples with the chevalier over the fate of one of their mates.
Meanwhile, a failed ceremony and a sick infant send the Anishinaabe hunter Maâiingan on a journey across the Empire to Cavalier Johnsland, to a troubled foster child named Nathaniel. Maâiingan is promised that Nathaniel is a mighty healer and can save his imperiled baby, but first Nathanielâa pale young man with a twisted ear who hears the voices of unseen beingsâmust himself be rescued, from oppression, imprisonment, and madness.
At the publisherâs request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).