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The First Folio: A Dark Renaissance Fantasy Adventure
A character-driven dark renaissance fantasy adventure
The stars and the planets we see — they don't orbit us in spheres. We orbit the sun. When you cast your horoscopes, your magic, you’re using the movements of the heavens as you understand them. But what if you’re wrong about how they work? And what if you could see the way they were truly constructed? What if you could build calculations that were...perfect? What power would you have then?
After incurring the wrath of his patron, Elector Palatine Philip of Heidelberg (where his duties included a little alchemy on Wednesdays, murdering wizards on a Thursday), Faust and his loyal werewolf bodyguard Wagner find themselves exiled from the city they called home and in need of another fresh start.
Settling in Nuremberg, Faust works his way into the orbit of the Prince-Bishop, who sends him to recapture a missing academic and the book he stole. That journey takes Faust back to Heidelberg, into a confrontation with the very devil to whom he sold his soul, and reveals a cosmic truth that nobody should ever know.
This is the first book in The Faust Quartet.
The stars and the planets we see — they don't orbit us in spheres. We orbit the sun. When you cast your horoscopes, your magic, you’re using the movements of the heavens as you understand them. But what if you’re wrong about how they work? And what if you could see the way they were truly constructed? What if you could build calculations that were...perfect? What power would you have then?
After incurring the wrath of his patron, Elector Palatine Philip of Heidelberg (where his duties included a little alchemy on Wednesdays, murdering wizards on a Thursday), Faust and his loyal werewolf bodyguard Wagner find themselves exiled from the city they called home and in need of another fresh start.
Settling in Nuremberg, Faust works his way into the orbit of the Prince-Bishop, who sends him to recapture a missing academic and the book he stole. That journey takes Faust back to Heidelberg, into a confrontation with the very devil to whom he sold his soul, and reveals a cosmic truth that nobody should ever know.
This is the first book in The Faust Quartet.
408 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 27, 2025
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March 22, 2026
Help from demons, corruption in the church, and playful banter between an astrologer and a werewolf. I enjoyed this story, the world building, and the characters.
July 22, 2026
Consider Me Intrigued
It seems that this first book in the series is a good start. The combination of a wizard and a werewolf as main characters makes the book full of adventure and insights that left me curious about what comes next in the series.
It seems that this first book in the series is a good start. The combination of a wizard and a werewolf as main characters makes the book full of adventure and insights that left me curious about what comes next in the series.
October 30, 2025
The First Folio is an outstanding read from start to finish. Fast, fun, interesting, great central characters you care about and a tight plot that makes it a story you lock into and have to find out what happens next.
The setting of a Medieval Europe filled with swords, servants, body guards and men at arms, merchants, bishops and all manner of artists, monks and peasants is enhanced by the magic that is weaved by Faust and the mystical community he interacts with. It lives and breathes and you believe its all there.
What really makes The First Folio stand out is the intoxicating, irreverent and infectious writing style. A mash up of rogues and chancers forging their way through the events as they unfold. Ducking. Diving. Wheeling and dealing. Lying. Cheating. And Faust is a fabulously dirty rotten scoundrel.
But he has a heart. A brilliantly flawed one that won't let him stop him getting into and out of scrapes.
The pairing of Faust, a cursed, cursing conman magician and Wagner, his diamond in the rough werewolf bodyguard is fantastic and I really rooted for them.
Loved it and can't wait for the next one.
The setting of a Medieval Europe filled with swords, servants, body guards and men at arms, merchants, bishops and all manner of artists, monks and peasants is enhanced by the magic that is weaved by Faust and the mystical community he interacts with. It lives and breathes and you believe its all there.
What really makes The First Folio stand out is the intoxicating, irreverent and infectious writing style. A mash up of rogues and chancers forging their way through the events as they unfold. Ducking. Diving. Wheeling and dealing. Lying. Cheating. And Faust is a fabulously dirty rotten scoundrel.
But he has a heart. A brilliantly flawed one that won't let him stop him getting into and out of scrapes.
The pairing of Faust, a cursed, cursing conman magician and Wagner, his diamond in the rough werewolf bodyguard is fantastic and I really rooted for them.
Loved it and can't wait for the next one.
June 8, 2026
Great book!
This book had me from the very start. Characters you identify with and come to enjoy, it’s a rollercoaster from start to finish!
I’m looking forward to the next one!
This book had me from the very start. Characters you identify with and come to enjoy, it’s a rollercoaster from start to finish!
I’m looking forward to the next one!
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