Beneath the Lanterns Release Date: 20 Sept 2018

I have scheduled the release of my 2018 novel, Beneath the Lanterns, for Thursday 20 September. It will be available as both a trade paperback and as an ebook. The trade paperback will retail for $12.00 and will be available at Amazon, B & N, and other book stores. The ebook will be priced, as usual, for free on Smashwords, iBooks, B & N, and Kobo. I will release it on Amazon for the special introductory price of $.99  Since my preferred price for ebooks is free, I will see if Amazon will price match its competitors and list the ebook for free as well. While they have in the past, that is up to them. As a general rule Amazon has not been price matching the free price in most of its non-US stores, but Smashwords has a free mobi version that can be side-loaded onto a Kindle for Amazon readers outside of the US. After 1 Jan 2019 I will be raising the list price of the ebook to $8.50, so if you must buy it, be sure to buy it before the end of the year. 


Beneath the Lanterns
No good deed goes unpunished.
The historian Kel Cam enjoyed a pleasant life in Azera, the colorful capital of the Azere Empire. In the dark days, he taught classes at the University. In the bright days, he traveled the wide steppes to visit Blue Order communities, seeking clues about the mysterious, long dead civilization of the Elders in their ancient texts. However, when his best friend, Lefe Sol, the son of the ruler of Azere, discovers that his father has arranged his marriage to Ren Loh, the fourth daughter of the Empress of Jasmyne, Kel offers to stand by and help Lefe deal with his unexpected, and unwanted, bride-to-be. Kel soon finds himself caught up in the intrigues of empires which not only upset his well ordered life – they lay it to ruin.
Beneath the Lanterns is an old fashioned novel of adventure and travel set in an imaginary land – a land of colorful cities, wide steppes, and valleys littered with the ruins of a lost advanced civilization. It is a world of sixteen days of day light under the Yellow Lantern and sixteen days of night lit by the Blue Lantern. And across this wide and wild world under the Yellow and Blue Lanterns, Kel Cam finds that he must flee for his freedom, if not his life.
Beneath the Lanterns is the fifth novel by C. Litka. As in all of his novels, the story features richly drawn, engaging characters, imaginative settings, humor, and lighthearted adventure in a complete standalone novel.