Seaside Lessons

John and Edmund's newest assignment sends them somewhere neither of them expected: a beautiful seaside town, hundreds of miles from anything they've ever called home. Levale has sun, sea air, fishing boats, and a growing body count the church can't afford to ignore.

Soldiers and clergy have been disappearing from Levale for months. The men sent before John and Edmund to investigate didn't fare well. One never came back at all.

Posing as a scholar and his nephew, John and Edmund settle in, hire staff, and start asking careful questions. It's a town with good reason not to trust anyone wearing a uniform... and even less reason to trust newcomers who might bring trouble from the capital.

The deeper they dig, the closer the danger creeps to home. When someone inside their inner circle turns out to be working against them, Edmund learns the true cost of trust.

What John and Edmund eventually uncover is bigger than a string of killings. By the time they understand how big, it may already be too late to stop it.

Seaside Lessons is book three of The Paladin's Assistant, a dark fantasy mystery about occupation, loyalty, and the truth simmering beneath a beautiful town.