Book One of A Wonderful Week for a Quest

A Wonderful Day for a Quest

A prophecy. A riddle. A wizard, a knight, and far too many footnotes.

Begin a fast, funny, family-friendly fantasy adventure filled with magic beans, heroic misunderstandings, and a narrator who refuses to stay out of the story.

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Your Next Quest Includes

Clean Fantasy Fun

An accessible adventure for families, middle-grade readers, teens, and adults who prefer their quests without grimdark baggage.

Classic Quest Ingredients

Wizards, knights, riddles, prophecies, magical objects, and at least one suspiciously important bean.

Humorous Footnotes

Jackdaw’s running commentary supplies history, corrections, opinions, and several details no responsible narrator would include.

A Quick Adventure

A light, lively opening volume that launches a seven-book journey without requiring a seven-book commitment up front.

The Story

The Kingdom’s Only Hope Is…Someone

The wizard Jackdaw has deciphered the uppercase Prophecy, a mysterious riddle that foretells the kingdom’s fate. Unfortunately, the prophecy is not especially specific about who is supposed to save everyone.

Jackdaw and a certain would-be hero must set out to unravel the three parts of the Riddle of Ages. Their journey brings magical beans, dangerous obstacles, questionable decisions, and enough narrator commentary to make the footnotes nearly a second adventure.

Perfect for readers who enjoy fantasy conventions, absurd complications, and heroes who may not have read the job description.

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Speak with Sir Roderick

Ask the kingdom’s most self-assured knight about quests, monsters, bravery, and any topic on which he has developed an opinion without first developing expertise.

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Meet the characters and sample the book’s voice before committing yourself to the prophecy.

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Readers Joined the Quest

“So fun and funny. If you like Monty Python, this is for you. A lot of action and mystery. Really need those magic beans! Fun characters.”
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“A short, fun listen that encapsulates all of our favourite tropes from the fantasy realm along with an abundance of wit and humour… I was chuckling all the way.”
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Connected Encyclopedia Lore

The Minion and the Harvest Behind the First Quest

ELM’s opening scheme threatens the River Magus and the kingdom’s magic-bean harvest. Beneath the dark lord’s theatrical performance, Wormtoe uses mimicry, patience, and his position as chief minion to become a danger in his own right.

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Follow the Crisis to Its Source

The River Magus

The opening quest becomes a kingdom-wide emergency when ELM drops an enchanted pebble into the underground source of the River Magus. Its enchanted waters make magic-bean agriculture possible, so stopping one small trickle threatens the Beandom’s food, trade, spellcraft, and identity.

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