The Bard of Seven Oaks: Book 1

The people need a champion of the light. They get a bard.

Chouncey of Seven Oaks is many things—a bard, an alcoholic, an unapologetically queer man, and a liar—but to the feared Warchief of the Byrian Isles, Irminric the Black, he's an escaped slave.

When a long-suffering cleric pulls Chouncey and his magical mandolin from a ditch, saying her sun god sent her, he can only assume she's come to collect him. After all, he's Irminric's most prized possession, the gem of his hoard, the scop who wa...