The Minstrel and the Prophet
Book One of The Chronicles of the Lawbreaker
No one is born evil. No one is born good. It is our choices that define us, not our birth.
Times are strained in the Federated Kingdoms: animals are born deformed, crops fail overnight, and raiders strike from within the neighboring Kelmar Empire. In his backwater village, Lauren dreams of becoming a minstrel, the itinerant musician scholars of the Federated Kingdoms. His father, though, demands that Lauren train to be a warrior. When his father attacks him in a drunken rage, Lauren flees to the minstrel’s college at Songhaven. During his training, Ambrose — master of the college and a prophet — teaches him about an ancient prophecy concerning the Lawbreaker, a man whose battles with the goddess Mar will destroy the world. As Lauren and Ambrose race to forestall a plot to kill the High King, they struggle to learn the identity of the Lawbreaker. Then Lauren discovers that he is being hunted. Could it be the Lawbreaker? What use would that dark power have for a minstrel?
The Minstrel and the Prophet is the first work of fiction by Larry Z. Daily and is the first book in a trilogy that follows Lauren’s story from the tiny village of Cresswell to a confrontation that could echo across the Void. It was released on September 9, 2024. Writing on books two and three is complete and they should be available later in 2024 or early 2025.
