Every Inch a King: A Novel-Quality Guarantee

Description

Otto of Schlepsig is risking his neck as an acrobat in a third-rate circus in themiddle of nowhere when news arrives that the land of Shqiperi has invited PrinceHalim Eddin to become its new king. Otto doesn’t know the prince from Adam, but hedoes happen to look just like him—a coincidence that inspires Otto with a mad planto assume Halim’s identity and rule in his stead. True, Shqiperi is an uncivilizedbackwater, but even in uncivilized backwaters kings live better than acrobats. Plus,kingship in Shqiperi comes with a harem. Rank, as they say, has its privileges.

With his friend Max, a sword-swallowing giant whose chronic cough makes every performancea potential tonsillectomy, Otto embarks on a rollicking journey filled with featsof derring-do, wondrous magic, and beautiful maidens—well, beautiful women. And that’s before he enters a royal world that is truly fantastical.