Glencrow Summer

Are you weary of long, dark, and grim fantasy epics? Tired of evil priests, ruthless kings, sinister queens, knaves, and scoundrels—intricate palace intrigues and endless wars? Are you jaded by blood-soaked tomes of battle after battle, death after death? Need a break from accounts of disembowelment, torture, rape, and murder? In short, are you looking for a different sort of fantasy? Look no further.

Again.

Are you in the mood for a summer long holiday in the north woods?

Glencrow Summer is, like its companion novel, Chateau Clare, a leisurely paced, mundane slice-of-life fantasy novel set in a post-magic, Edwardian-era world. While this novel is set in the same world, three years after Chateau Clare, it can be read as a stand alone novel, since it features new characters and a new setting. Once again, the stakes are low, the company pleasant. 

Ryeth Darth-Ruen is a minor scion of one of the seven remaining Great Houses of Lorria and the personal secretary of his uncle Avlen Ruen. He's asked by his concerned uncle to travel to Loc Lore Rey to help look after Avlen's mother, the formidable Aunt Adora Ruen. She intends to spend the summer in a remote lodge in the north woods, accompanied her faithful maid, writing her memoirs. Rye agrees, only to discover that Uncle Avlen has a second mission for him – he's to prevent, or at least delay, the writing of said memoirs. It seems that Aunt Adora had a rather scandalous youth, one that Uncle Avlen would rather not want brought to light. How Rye is to accomplish this is an unanswered question.

Glencrow Summer is his lighthearted account of a summer spent in Loc Lore Rey. He meets new friends, gets in a bit of fishing, finds a hint of summer romance, and slowly, and quite unintentionally, helps uncover one of the deepest secrets of the Age of Sorcery – the true story of the legendary Star Chamber of the Court of Shalott.

C. Litka spins tales of adventure, mystery, and travel set in richly imagined worlds. In Glencrow Summer, he has written a novel of a long summer holiday and its unexpected mysteries with his usual cast of colorful, fully realized characters. If you seek to escape your everyday life, you'll find no better company, nor more wonderful worlds to explore, than in the stories of C. Litka.