It’s that time of year — cherry season! My tree is heavy with bright red fruit, and all down the block you can hear the robins and starlings coming to the feast.
This is a good time to bring up my fourth Minstrels of Skaythe novella, The Renegade of Opshar. One main feature of this novella is that Yamaya, the bandit-turned-farmer, has an orchard of cherry trees on her land. When she hires Berisan as a farm hand, he spends a lot of time helping her pick, dry and pack them for the market.
There are no bandits around my house, but here’s to the cherries, and to The Renegade of Opshar!
The Renegade of Opshar
All Berisan wants is a place to hide. The insignificant village of Opshar seems like a perfect haven. Disguised as a beggar, he can lie low and evade the brutal hunter-guards. But Berisan isn‛t the only one with secrets.
Widowed and pregnant, Yamaya struggles to hold the farm she and her husband built, but she can‛t escape her sordid past. In desperation, she hires the one person who hasn‛t taken a side in Opshar‛s murky politics — the beggar, Sand.
Common sense tells Berisan to walk away, but his code as a minstrel compels him to help Yamaya if he can. Soon he faces a decision that challenges every principle he holds. Will he give up the safety of his secrets, or allow another to suffer in his place?
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Cherry season is fabulous, for both the birds and people.:-) It’s sand burr season around here (Northern Plains of Texas), ouch!
Sand burrs sound… awesome?
They do sound awesome, but they’re like miniature cacti. Ouch.
Those little buggers get my peaches, too.