It Happened One Knight

Broken heroes. A haunted motel. A vanishing corpse. One night that will change everything.

John Wayne Orkney is barely holding it together after the events of Down Came a Blackbird. Grady Dale Orkney-the fanciest Orkney of them all-has his world rocked by one impossible question from his high school sweetheart.
A firefighter training trip is supposed to be an escape.
Instead, they end up at the crumbling Good Knight's Rest Inn, where the staff is missing, an entire wing is sealed off, and a lost reservation forces a disturbingly handsome firefighter to bunk with them.
Then Grady Dale finds an overdosed teen.
Who vanishes.

With law enforcement unwilling to help and something deeply wrong hiding in the motel halls, Grady Dale follows his instincts into a single, dangerous night. What looks like luck-or magic-to his skeptical new ally may be something older, stranger, and unmistakably Orkney.
One night.
Kids in real danger.
An epic hallway fight.

It Happened One Knight is a fast-paced Appalachian mystery packed with humor, found family, quiet magic, and a hero who proves that not all knights wear shining armor.
Some show up in camo pants, eyeliner... and carry a stuffed alligator.
Improbably inspired by actual events. No one was harmed. Probably.
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This Deluxe Edition also contains the Camelot West Virginia Holiday Tale - Jesus, Santa, & Grady Dale
Jesus, Santa, and Grady Dale Orkney: the holiday team-up you didn't know you needed. Can Orkney magic-and a little Appalachian faith-bring a fractured family back together for Christmas?

In this Camelot West Virginia holiday tale, the Orkneys open their crowded, imperfect home to heartbroken teen Audra Van Winkle after her father throws her out in a drunken rage. It's Christmas Eve, emotions are raw, and nothing about this holiday feels merry.

Determined to do the right thing, Arvin Lee Orkney makes a last-ditch effort to confront Audra's father-only to make everything worse. By night's end, Audra's little brother has been cast out too, and what was already a fragile Christmas threatens to fall apart completely.

But just when it seems beyond saving, six-year-old Grady Dale Orkney steps in with the kind of faith only a child can wield-deploying heartfelt prayers, a letter to Santa, and a quiet belief that somebody, somewhere, is listening.

Can a child's faith, combined with Orkney tough love, pull a broken family back from the brink?

Set years before the events of Camelot West Virginia, this charming and heartfelt short story takes readers back to a Christmas that forever changed how the Orkneys understand family-and offers the very first glimpse of the quiet, unexpected magic of Grady Dale.