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Florenz Nightingale and the Sword of Layban sets colonial American history in a Tolkienesque medieval past.
This humorous epic blends historical figures into American folklore, fairy tales, popular tunes, and nursery rhymes with an emphasis on our Christian roots.

Johnny Appleseed, a ragamuffin Christian preacher, is on a mission to end hunger in Vinland with apple seeds and a newly discovered form of medieval refrigeration, blackflame. The fire elves of Tuscoraura Mountain seek to weaponize blackflame, but before they can, Goldilocks steals the key to its darkest secret — the Sword of Layban. The Cardinals Orsini, the three bears of the Inquisition, send a young Benjamin Franklin to snatch it from her, but he’d rather tell them to go fly a kite.

The fabulously wealthy dark elf princess, Florenz, has a plan to make everything right with the songs of nightingales.

This brilliantly written fantasy epic sneaks fun facts, parodies, and thousands of references to American culture and history into the storyline. See how many you can catch!

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