The Royals And The Ramblers
Good morning readers and welcome to the latest Shivadhverse novel! As with my previous books, I’m making a draft of the novel available for public commentary, so that you all can help make it awesome.
The Royals And The Ramblers is the fifth novel in the Shivadh Romances; earlier novels are available for purchase as ebooks or hardcopies or in PDF for free. This book largely features the cast of previous novels, and may be a struggle to read without having read the others, although I've done my best to make it accessible.
Constructive criticism is welcome! Tell me what you liked, what you didn’t, where my typos are.
Summary:
Change is in the air for the Shivadh royal family! King Gregory III is marrying his American fiancee, Eddie Rambler, in a series of weddings -- one in Eddie's hometown in California, one for the family in Fons-Askaz, and one memorable blowout for all of Askazer-Shivadlakia. When the royals visit California, Eddie's shy brother Ephraim finds an instant soulmate in extroverted chatterbox Noah, while his sister Monday, a little protective of her big brother, is wary of the royals at first. Still, by the time the first wedding rolls around she's agreed to travel back with them and serve as a surrogate so that Eddie and Gregory can start a family.
The only snag? She's been enjoying a no-strings affair with the royal bodyguard, Georgiana, and they had agreed it would just be a fun fling until the royals went home again. Now they're both in Fons-Askaz, Monday feeling a little in over her head and Georgie feeling a little wistful -- so an extension on the fling might be in order. They both know Monday, whose family is in California and whose life is on the waves, can't stay, so they're doing their best not to get attached.
Meanwhile, the rest of the family is undergoing changes as well: Jerry and Alanna are negotiating their way through new developments in their relationship, while Noah and Jes are both adjusting to Noah's almost-adulthood and his new role as prince. Gregory and Eddie, having taken a young prodigy under their wing, are becoming dads a little ahead of schedule, and Michaelis would like to be granddad to young Joan, but she's making it...difficult. Everyone's going to have to find a few new ways to keep growing up, but given their tight family bonds and the Shivadh sense of humor, that shouldn't be an impossible task.
The chapters will be posted one-a-day at AO3, starting today with:
Prologue and Chapter One
You can also read the entire novel chapter-by-chapter, available starting today, in googledoc form:
The Prologue and Chapter One are here, or you can access the entire novel at the folder here.
Happy reading!
