Shoestring Theory

A queer,madcapfriends-to-lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers time travel romance with the future of the world at stakethis charming fantasy tale is sure to satisfy fans of Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree. The kingdom of Farsala is broken and black clouds hang heavy over the arid lands. Former Grand-Mage of the High CourtCyril Laverrehas spent the last decade hiding himself away in a ramshackle hut by the seatrying to catch any remaining fish for his cat familiarShoestringand suppressing his guilt over the kingdom’s ruin. For he played his part – for as the KingEufrates Margravedescended further and further into paranoiaviolence and madnesshis Grand-Mage – and husband – Cyril didn’t do a thing to stop him. When Shoestring wanders away and dies one morningCyril knows his days are finally numbered. But are there enough left to have a last go at putting things right? With his remaining lifebloodhe casts a powerful spell that catapults him back in time to a happier period of Farsalan history – a time when it was Eufrates’s older sister Tig destined to ascend to the thronebefore she died of a wasting diseaseand a time when Cyril and Eufrates’s tentative romance had not yet bloomed. If he can just make sure Eufie never becomes Kingthen maybe he can prevent the kingdom’s tragic fate. But the magical oath he made to his husband at the altartranscending both time and spacemay prove to be his most enduring – and most dangerous – feat of magic to date… Featuring a formidable Great Aunta friends-to-lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romancean awkward love quadrangle and a crow familiar called Ganachethis charming story is imminently easy to read and sure to satisfy fans of fanfiction who like their fantasy lite.