Glencrow Summer
Podrobnosti o e‑knize
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.
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O autorovi
I write romances. Romances in the old meaning of the word; that meaning being an adventure novel set in exotic locales, remote from everyday life. The fact that I set my stories in the future and in imaginary locales mean that they can be classified as science fiction, but what I really write are first person narratives that feature likable, modern characters, in lighthearted, realistic adventures, told with humor and a bit of that other type of romance as well.
In my teen years I read hundreds of science fiction books and since then many other types of novels; detective and mysteries, humor, adventure, military, sea stories, as well as light literary fiction, many of which were written in the first half of the last century. Having lived a perfectly ordinary and, thankfully, an uneventful life. these are the stories that have shaped the style and themes of my own stories,
I live in a small Wisconsin city. I’ve been married for as long as I can remember, with two grown children and a couple of grandchildren. Besides writing, I paint impressionist landscapes and ride my bike each day, outside when it’s warm and inside during long the Wisconsin winters with the bike on a stand next to a window.
