ITL mystery

Now that Trent and Jason is available, let's talk about what's coming up next!

As it turns out, I've written a mystery story.  Not, as I mentioned earlier, a murder mystery.  The world of ITL is filled with so many cialexes that someone running around killing people would have the main characters all distraught, and it would lead to more outraged speech-making than hot wild sex.

The Mystery of the Golden Goddess takes place post-Purple, pre-Rainbow.  Orinakin and Bade are off on a diplomatic mission, and they bring Rini along for fun.  Orinakin plans to make a quick stop to get some people to sign a treaty before he takes Rini to visit some Leetesrian family members.  It'll all be a quick, simple little excursion.

Or not.

See, back in the day, there was some old country (OC) that got into a bunch of strife and stuff.  It split from one country into three, but it had some fancy super-important statue (FSIS), and the OC was worried that something would happen to the FSIS in the middle of all of the war and violence and hard times.  So the leaders of the OC handed the FSIS to Kudorin for safekeeping.

Now the current rulers from the OC and their neighbors (who were sucked into the war and violence and hard times) are meeting up to sign a treaty.  Everyone agrees to peace, the OC gets its precious FSIS back, everyone wins!

Except that before Orinakin can hand the FSIS over, it sort of disappears.

Oops!

Now Orinakin has to find the FSIS before the treaty falls apart.  You know how Orinakin is, he'd get all upset and stuff if war broke out again.

That description of events didn't sound very sexy, did it?  NEVER FEAR!  I managed to cram sex and romance into this story JUST FOR YOU because I know how much you enjoy it.  You will get mystery and drama, as you would expect, but you will also get sex and romance, because when you come to Matthew Haldeman-Time, you get the full package.

Hmm.  That sounded kind of dirty.  Let's leave it that way.