The Shade of Ronhu

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Political Intrigue, Dark Humor, Humor Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and Novels

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Profanity

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Publication Date

Sep 1, 2026

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312 pages

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The Shade of Ronhu

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Blurb

The court mage falls in love with the queen.

Rastorad is serving as court mage in the Kingdom of Silyanath when nefarious wraiths escape their prison. His charged duty is to protect the reigning monarch, but Queen Alianne has enemies everywhere, some far closer than she knows.

Relationships are tested as the mage council disagrees on how to handle the spreading chaos. Who can be trusted, and who will take advantage of every disaster? If integrity demands it, will Rastorad have what it takes to thwart his superiors?

Meanwhile, on the Island of Storms, the child meant to die in ritual sacrifice finds himself in reluctant service to a band of devious ghosts.

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Genres

Political Intrigue, Dark Humor, Humor Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Profanity

Type of Ending

Series

Not part of a series

Author Prefers A Review On

Goodreads or Amazon

Reader Spots Remaining

100

Number of days to read

100

Publication Date

Sep 1, 2026

Page Length

312 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

I K Stokbaek was born in Denmark some time in the previous millennium and moved to the UK as a teenager with unattainable dreams. Fantasy has been her life since she discovered The Lord of the Rings at the age of 11, and she fell into science fiction as a young adult because Star Trek was incessantly repeated on the only channel her charity-shop television could pick up. Ida has wanted to be a writer since she was old enough to hold her favorite crayon, and her earliest stories—written in red crayon—featured exclusively bees and kittens.