The Queen of Gondal
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The dying King of Gondal lays a solemn trust on John Watson, court physician; at all costs to keep the fourteen year-old Crown Princess Charis out of the clutches of the corrupt Heir of Gondal. Which means arranging her marriage to Sherlock, heir to the neighbouring throne of Gaaldine, Gondal's traditional enemy. John escorts the Crown Princess to her wedding, acutely aware of the pressure of history and unspoken - unspeakable - secrets which he had thought buried forever.
A downloadable ebook version of this story can be found here
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- Part 1 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 1 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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The Castellan of the Eagles by AJHall for caulkhead, clanwilliam
Sherlock (TV), Bronte juvenilia, Other (mystery) fandom
23 May 2011
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The Castellan of Castle Cavron learns of an impending official inspection by one Lord Osric, equerry to the Crown Prince. Will his ill-assorted crew of garrison officers be able to cope with the strain? And who is this 'Lord Osric' anyway?
A downloadable ebook version of this story can be found here
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- Part 2 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 2 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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The Bishop of the Northern Marches by AJHall
Sherlock (TV), Life on Mars (UK), Bronte juvenilia
26 Jun 2011
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While John and Sherlock have been spying and building alliances up on the Northern border of Gaaldine, various tensions are coming to a head in Brendelhame, the provincial capital. The last day of the Crown Princess Charis's solo visit to the city coincides with a local festival to celebrate the defeat of a Gondalian force there two centuries earlier. At which point a rigidly moralistic Bishop, who sees all tactics as legitimate in the war against Sin, decides to preach a sermon on the evils of the sexes straying from their God-appointed spheres. With a drink-fuelled mob on the rampage and numerous competing factions ready to take advantage of any opening all hell is about to break loose.
A downloadable ebook version of this story can be found here
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- Part 3 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 3 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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From the shore at Aulis to the palace in Gaaldine, to be a princess is to be a sacrifice.
In a remote country residence Master Ripley, a physician famed for his knowledge of frenzy and melancholia, tends a distraught woman broken by the ruthless dynastic politics of her House. The unexpected arrival of her kinsman the Crown Prince is a catalyst which forces Ridley to recognise the brooding evil at the root of his patient's malady, a curse which has poisoned the lives of four generations and which sits so close to the Crown that treason itself ceases to be a relevant consideration.
Meanwhile, death, fire and destruction creep inland from the sea, and the wind is changing.
A downloadable ebook version of this can be found here
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- Part 4 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 4 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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After any military action comes the duty of reporting back to HQ and writing letters to the families of the fallen.
So it is after the sea-wolves' raid on Alwentdale.
A downloadable ebook version can be found here
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- Part 5 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 5 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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The Curious Incident of the Knight in the Library by AJHall
Sherlock (TV), Gondal - Bronte children
5 Jan 2012
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An ill-assorted party of English travellers arrive in Gaaldine, on the very edge of Europe, where tensions and buried secrets in the party are about to erupt in bloody murder. And murders happening on Palace premises are very much matters of interest to Sherlock, Crown Prince of Gaaldine, whatever the head of Palace Security thinks about high-born amateurs trespassing on his patch.
A downloadable ebook version appears here
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- Part 6 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 6 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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The Master's Mate's Stratagem by AJHall for kalypso
Sherlock (TV), Cabin Pressure, Gondal - Bronte children
28 Jan 2012
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Argosy of Ragusa, crew (as usual) arguing
Lumbering to leeward in the wind-whipped Med
With a cargo of seed corn,
Salt pork, cabbages,
Brandywine and small beer and passengers in bed– Trad. arr caulkhead
Lord Lestrade of Gondal, eloping from the Kingdom of Naples with Sally Donovan, a merchant's daughter, takes passage aboard the Santa Gertrude for the risky winter passage of the Straits of Otranto. When the ship's cat takes a fancy to the contents of Lord Lestrade's sea-chest, all that stands between the Santa Gertrude's crew and the wrath of the most hot-tempered aristocrat in the three kingdoms are the quick wits of the master's mate. Fortunately, he may almost be as brilliant as the ship-owner's son believes.
For kalypso, on her birthday.
Downloadable ebook version available here.
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- Part 8 of Queen of Gondal Universe
- Part 7 of The Queen of Gondal
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David Hebron grows up on a secluded country estate as a ward of the Abbey of Norburyness, kept in ignorance of his true origins, his very name selected from the Bible by random chance. As he passes from boyhood to adulthood a sequence of apparently chance events begin to show him who he is and what he has the potential to become. Others, though, also have plans. For them, David Hebron represents an new battlefield in the unending struggles between Gondal and Gaaldine, aristocracy and monarchy, religious tolerance and repression. On a bridge above a rushing beck in the mountainous North-East corner of Gaaldine David Hebron is about to come face to face with a member of his true family for the first time. The consequences will shake kingdoms to their foundations.
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- Part 9 of Queen of Gondal Universe
- Part 8 of The Queen of Gondal
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The Choices of the King deals with the immediate aftermath of the final scene of The Abbess of Norburyness. With the Crown Prince missing, his numerous enemies at Court strive to blacken his name with accusations of everything from cold-blooded murder to treason. The King is forced to take drastic action to prevent all-out revolt in Council, though it feels like cutting off his own right hand.
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- Part 9 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 10 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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The Loyalties of the Courtesan by AJHall for Clanwilliam
Sherlock (TV), Gondal - Bronte children
19 May 2012
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The most notorious woman in Gaaldine is on a mission. A chance encounter five years earlier left Gertie owing a debt of gratitude which is unexpectedly called in following the Reaching Beck Bridge disaster. With an unidentified traitor sitting in the heart of the Court, the fate of two kingdoms rests in her hands.
Can be read either before or after The Choices of the King.
Downloadable version available here
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- Part 10 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 11 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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Gondal, 1670. The Court is a hot-bed of rumour, gossip and barely restrained tensions.
Queen Felicia worries. She worries about her inability to conceive a child, about her husband's wandering eye, about the ambitions of the heir-presumptive, Prince James and - most of all, perhaps - about what "that Royal brat", the fifteen-year-old hostage Prince Sherlock of Gaaldine, is going to spring on them all next.
A shot rings out across an autumnal lake in North-Eastern Gondal. But at whom was the gun truly aimed, and how many decades will it take before its echoes finally die?
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- Part 12 of Queen of Gondal Universe
- Part 11 of The Queen of Gondal
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Sherlock, Crown Prince of Gaaldine, is a marked man. His brother has proclaimed him an outlaw and decreed that those who knowingly assist him will share his fate. But, five years ago, under the guise of the consumptive Mr Verney, Sherlock rescued the life-savings of one Martha Hudson, widow, in the town of Sancta Maria inter Prata. Mrs Hudson always repays her debts. Even when that involves facing up to Lord Moran, the most ruthless assassin in the three kingdoms.
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- Part 12 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 13 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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A coda to the account of the quest of John Watson, Physician.
This time there's a bed.
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- Part 13 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 14 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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The inner core of the King's Council of Gaaldine meet to discuss a secret treaty offered by the dying King of Gondal, their historic enemy. The proposed treaty touches Prince Sherlock in a uniquely personal way. Leaving the Council session in desperate need of oblivion, he finds Fate has thrown a newly appointed member of the Palace guard in his way, a boy with the face of a Raphael angel. But should he call it Fate, or are human hands pulling the strings?
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- Part 14 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 15 of Queen of Gondal Universe
