Quest for a King's Bride

Adventure, suspense, humor—it's all here.

Background of the plot

Valdorian, the young king, has been told by his wisest counselor that it is time for him to find a wife. But no princess he knows seems like the girl of his dreams. Determined to find the right one, Valdorian sets off on a quest that will lead him to the unexplored Outer Lands, where danger and adventure lurk. How will he recognize his future queen? A pretty face can hide a nasty heart.

Literary roots

This book belongs to the genre best called a fantasy-quest novel, the kind of story in which someone believes something is of enough value to risk danger to achieve it. What a radical idea in today’s society where nothing is of much value except Self ! We believe that the fantasy-quest novel is particularly appropriate for the expression of Christian values. To the proponents of realism (which, after all, appeared on the literary scene as an offshoot of scientific determinism) we would say in the words of Shakespeare, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy."

The Christian fantasy-quest novel seeks to communicate a sense of the wonder and mystery of creation and of the spiritual reality that underlies the visible world. It attempts to inculcate a sense of the importance of the Word of God in meeting crises. Further, it expresses the desirability of heroic values—courage, duty before pleasure, dedication to the right—in a setting in which there is forgiveness for those who fail.

Availability

The novel is available from Amazon.com as a paperback. Any new copy ordered directly by selecting its main listing on Amazon will be the latest revision, dated 8/8/19. Copies from any other source, even one advertising on Amazon, may not be the latest revision.