num_pages: 488
description:  A new Fantasy series by award-winning author Isobel StarlingA lost lordling a farm boy and a tale of mystery magic and murder! After a traumatic event Winter Aeling finds himself destitute and penniless in the backwater town of Mallowick. He needs to travel to the city of Serein and impart grave news that will bring war to the Empire but without a horse money and with not a soul willing to help him he has no choice but to line up with the common folk seeking paid work on the harvest. As wagons roll into the market square and farmers choose day laborers Winter is singled out for abuse by a brute of a farmer. The only man who stands up for him is the farmer's beguiling son Adam and on locking eyes with the swarthy young man Winter feels the immediate spark of attraction.Winter soon realizes there is a reason he has been drawn to Blackdown Farm. The farmer possesses a precious item that was stolen long ago from Winters family and he determines to retrieve it. He also cannot take his eyes off the farmer's son and as the young man opens up Winter cant help wondering if Adam is just kind or his kind!
language: English
title: Apple Boy
publisher: Decent Fellows Press