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The Fateful Five, Book One

A Worse Thing to Carry

Five years at one table. Now a novel.

The cover of A Worse Thing to Carry, The Fateful Five, Book One: a walled city with three towers on a rock at sea, a low red sun behind it, and a path of light across the dark water.
He went back for every arrow, until the first he left behind, in a man on an unfamiliar road.

Haldyr Rovan reached the lumber town ready to work. But the town was desperate, and a suspicious town wants somebody to blame.

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Ten silver each

Haldyr went into the forest to save someone.

He was not ready to find the Baron of Ashlem, a week dead, wrapped in silk, with three wounds under his ribs that no spider made.

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Chris Kwasny ran this story at his table for five years, with his friends, all the way to its end. Most adventures end there. This one was written down. The story of the table →

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“This story is about leaving for a reason and what you have to carry: first your home, then the threats of a town, and last a party that was headed into darkness.”

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