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NO GLORY HERE: John's arc
Ten years after his father marched away to war, John of Athelstan has learned to tend the land alone.
The fields are his now, the same furrows his father ploughed, the same soil that swallowed his sweat and his absence. John has kept the farm alive through lean harvests and rising taxes, kept his family fed when the kingdom cared nothing for their hunger. He has become the man his father never came home to be.
But the kingdom always comes back for more.
When a stranger arrives with a letter sealed in wax and stained with ash, John learns the truth about his father's death at the siege of Rochebrune, not a hero's fall, but a scapegoat's execution. A general's convenient lie. And now the same machine that devoured William is stirring again, hungry for fresh bodies, knocking on farmhouse doors across the realm.
John stands at a answer the next levy like his father did, and feed the war machine that destroyed him. Or draw a line his father never could, and face the cost of defiance.
In this unsparing medieval tale, one farm becomes a battleground not of swords but of conscience. Because sometimes the most dangerous choice a man can make is refusing to be sacrificed for a crown that calls it duty.
No Glory John’s arc is the third and final book in the grim, grounded No Glory Here series, a meditation on inherited grief, the price of obedience, and the quiet courage it takes to say no.
Perfect for readers of realistic medieval fiction, anti-glory war stories, and literary narratives that refuse to look away from the cost of power.
The fields are his now, the same furrows his father ploughed, the same soil that swallowed his sweat and his absence. John has kept the farm alive through lean harvests and rising taxes, kept his family fed when the kingdom cared nothing for their hunger. He has become the man his father never came home to be.
But the kingdom always comes back for more.
When a stranger arrives with a letter sealed in wax and stained with ash, John learns the truth about his father's death at the siege of Rochebrune, not a hero's fall, but a scapegoat's execution. A general's convenient lie. And now the same machine that devoured William is stirring again, hungry for fresh bodies, knocking on farmhouse doors across the realm.
John stands at a answer the next levy like his father did, and feed the war machine that destroyed him. Or draw a line his father never could, and face the cost of defiance.
In this unsparing medieval tale, one farm becomes a battleground not of swords but of conscience. Because sometimes the most dangerous choice a man can make is refusing to be sacrificed for a crown that calls it duty.
No Glory John’s arc is the third and final book in the grim, grounded No Glory Here series, a meditation on inherited grief, the price of obedience, and the quiet courage it takes to say no.
Perfect for readers of realistic medieval fiction, anti-glory war stories, and literary narratives that refuse to look away from the cost of power.
178 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 16, 2025
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