Ships, scams, and a halfling with big plans. Trouble’s brewing, and it isn’t all on the high seas. One of many creature-filled tales in the Wee Beasties StoryBundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
About Halfling Trouble
Where The Godfather meets The Hobbit you’ll find Halfling Trouble
Allspices, a river town thriving with illicit trade. A river town where one outfit controls the docks. The Red Dagger. A halfling gang.
Another outfit, the elvish Umbral Society, lusts for those docks.
Caught between them, one poor human. Thiias. Exiled from wealth. Struggling to survive. Today he takes a job moving cargo for the Red Dagger. Just sixteen crates, from a ship to a warehouse.
A simple job … that will spark a gang war, an unexpected friendship, and maybe, just maybe, a chance to leave The Life. If he survives.
Halfling Trouble, a wild ride of a mob novel set in a well-realized fantasy world featuring thrills, laughs, and the simple yet compelling philosophies of a half-orc named Bolk. Whether you love fantasy tales or crime stories, don’t miss this one! From Stefon Mears, author of the Jumpstart Duchy series and the Rise of Magic series.
About StoryBundle
Halfling Trouble appears in the Wee Beasties StoryBundle, a curated collection of indie fantasy tales featuring magical beasts, critters, and creatures of small kinds. StoryBundle is a pay-what-you-want platform supporting both authors and readers, with bonus books unlocked at higher tiers. This bundle was curated by award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Part of the bundle proceeds go to World Central Kitchen.
Curator's Note
When I approached Stefon to have him join the bundle, he gave me a choice of five books to include. I couldn’t pass up a book named Hafling Trouble. I chose it just so that I could read it. And also because I love Stefon’s fiction. He’s written some of the most thought-provoking and heartbreaking stories I’ve ever read. And he makes me laugh just as often as he makes me cry. It’s been a while since we’ve seen something new from Stefon, and I’m happy to have this volume here, exclusively. – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
About Stefon Mears
Stefon Mears writes a lot of both fantasy and mystery, and he enjoys blending the two, as he does in Halfling Trouble and the upcoming The Sound of Murder. He has more than thirty novels in print, and short stories in more than a dozen collections and twice as many anthologies and magazines. Among his more popular series are the Jumpstart Duchy (complete), the Rise of Magic (approaching completion), the Telepath Trilogy (compete), Spells for Hire (ongoing), the Edge of Humanity (ongoing), and the Cavan Oltblood series (ongoing). He can be found online most reliably at www.stefonmears.com.
You can find Halfling Trouble in the Wee Beasties StoryBundle, a limited-time collection of animal-themed fantasy from indie pros and award-winners.
