American Squire

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New Camelot #5 / Thornchapel #0.5
(a crossover novella)

WARNING: While you can enjoy this story without reading the New Camelot trilogy first, it occurs chronologically after American King and before A Lesson in Thorns.

This story is essentially New Camelot #5/Thornchapel #0.5, and contains a huge New Camelot spoiler!

(However, no spoilers for the Thornchapel books.)

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Former presidential aide Ryan Belvedere has been drifting in a fog of misery ever since his president was killed, but he reluctantly agrees to do a favor for a friend—fetching a rare book from a crumbling manor house in England.

There he meets Sidney Blount—cold, sophisticated, Dominant—who’s at the same house to appraise the family art.

It doesn’t take Sidney long to appraise Ryan too, and decide exactly what Ryan needs. Which just so happens to be the one thing Sidney wants to give…