Book 7 is now available

Greetings, delightful readers!

Did you know that the seventh book in The Swithen series is now available? 

This one tells the first half of the Balin / Balan story, which will be familiar to anyone who has read Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur. Balin commits a shocking murder at the beginning and is banished from Arthur’s court. He settles on a plan to win his way back into Arthur’s court, but it will take unbelievable prowess and courage. Meanwhile, Guinevere and Arthur’s romance continues to grow. The book ends with Arthur’s fight with the giant of St. Michael’s Mount, which has always been one of my favorite moments in the legend. 

I like it because it adapts a different source than the ones we’ve been in up until now, and this source has a lot more darkness and evil. This book features the emergence of a lot of villains, and starts to move Arthur himself into the background, shifting the focus to the knights of his court. Balin and Balan’s story will be completed in the next book, which should gain great resonance from the history we’ve built up here.

Check out The Adventure God Will Choose: The Swithen Book Seven in ebook or paperback.

“Telek writes short chapters that alternate between multiple plots, but the result is a continual interest on the reader’s part because no one plot becomes boring or tedious. The pattern changes at the end of the novel when Arthur fights a giant devasting part of his kingdom. This section was the longest because it was also the novel’s climax, and Telek did a magnificent job in depicting it. Arthur is not some invincible hero here but a fully realized, multi-faceted man deeply concerned about his people, self-conscious about his own faults, and prone to frailty and doubt because of his past. Telek also brings the giant to life, allowing him to speak his truth so that Arthur understands why he ravages the land. The encounter between King Arthur and the giant is a masterly piece of prose.”
—Tyler Tichelaar, author of the Children of Arthur series

“The author has delivered probably the most terrifyingly convincing fight against a giant any of us could imagine… These two giant scenes are the most shocking and powerful in all seven of the books.”
—Poor Boy Sixtyish, Amazon UK review