Season of Dangerous Peace

In a week's time, in every village and town in Koretia – even in the great capital city where the King's palace stood – Koretians would gather together to celebrate the New Year. There would be festive foods and drinks and the tossing of nuts into the fire, as the Koretians prayed to the gods for good fortune in the coming year. Most of all, there would be the making of creation baskets: living symbols of the beauty that was Koretia. . . . And then, the next day, the killings would resume.His village is dead, his baron broken beyond mending. Now, as the year reaches the season of peace, the baron's heir must decide whether to keep his family hidden, safe from the blood feud that is ravaging their kingdom, or to enter danger in quest of a higher goal.This novelette (miniature novel) of gods and family can be read on its own or as a side story of the Law Links volume in The Three Lands, a fantasy series on friendship, romance, and betrayal in times of war and peace.The Three Lands is part of Chronicles of the Great Peninsula, a cycle of mythic historical fantasy series about a battle between cultures. Chronicles of the Great Peninsula is set at a time when a centuries-old civilization is in danger of being destroyed. The cycle is inspired by conflicts between cultures during the Arthurian Era.