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Through the ivy-covered stone archway: the clearing, the Empty Throne, the great tree and the tower in golden light
Roman’s Game

A Story in Four Books

Past the woods at the end of an ordinary garden stands a stone archway — beyond it, a world of tall trees, strange stars, and long-waiting friends.

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Past the woods at the end of an ordinary garden stands a stone archway — beyond it, a world of tall trees, strange stars, and long-waiting friends. Roman’s Game: A Story in Four Books follows Jack and Alice, two children, and Boyd, one very good dog, into that world — to Roman, the Keeper, and five defenders. Books of wonder, courage, and kindness — for young readers, and for the grown-ups who read with them and find themselves caught up in the story too.

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The Complete Story

The gift: the whole story, in one box — for Christmas, birthdays, and every excuse in between.

Book One — The Empty Throne cover Book Two — Following Marks cover Book Three — First Five cover Book Four — The Keeper's Choice cover

All four ebooks together — The Empty Throne, Following Marks, First Five and The Keeper’s Choice — delivered at once, to keep.

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The Four Books

Each one is a whole story of its own — and together they are one.

The Empty Throne — Book One cover: the archway and the empty throne
Book One of Four

The Empty Throne

by Roman Funderwood

It starts with a whisper in the woods, a dog named Boyd, and a stone archway that was not there yesterday.

Jack and Alice are not supposed to be in the woods after dinner — but the woods are whispering their names. Following a tan-and-white dog named Boyd, brother and sister step through a moss-covered stone archway into a world of enormous trees, unfamiliar stars, and watchful eyes in the dark. There they meet Lupa, a great wolf with a kind voice, and Nox, a great horned owl who sees everything the night tries to hide. Deeper in the trees, an old Keeper named Roman keeps watch beside a stone throne that stands empty. Why is it empty? And what could “worthy” possibly mean? A story about two brave children, one very good dog, and the question that starts everything.

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Following Marks — Book Two cover: Jack and Alice on the marked path
Book Two of Four

Following Marks

by Roman Funderwood

The strange marks were carved at the foot of the throne all along — and Alice has just worked out that they are directions.

By their hundred-and-first visit, Jack and Alice know the way through the archway by heart. Roman is their friend, the defenders are family, and Saturday mornings belong to the clearing. Then Alice, hunched over her notebook, solves what nobody else ever did: the worn marks she copied from the base of the Empty Throne are not decoration. They are directions — through the old forest, where the trees were old when everything else was new. Roman warns them that forest keeps older laws than his. Lupa will walk them to its edge — and no further. What waits on the deep paths? A story about watching carefully, charging bravely, and knowing the difference.

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First Five — Book Three cover: the five defenders at the table
Book Three of Four

First Five

by Roman Funderwood

Past the grey hills lies a field where the ground once burned, a wall of ash — and a storm the defenders will not let two children face alone.

The marks have never once led Jack and Alice anywhere easy. This time the notebook points past the grey hills, to the fields of cooled fire — black rock ticking as it cools, and a wall of ash with lightning flickering inside it. When the moment comes, all five defenders step between the children and the storm. And Leo teaches Jack the hardest lesson in the books: sometimes turning back is the brave thing. Home again, one by one, the First Five tell their own stories — Lupa the wolf, Leo the lion, Nox the great horned owl, Aquila the golden eagle, and Invictus the war horse. Where did they come from, before there was a Keeper to guard?

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The Keeper's Choice — Book Four cover: the Keeper and Lupa at dawn, the throne beside them
Book Four of Four

The Keeper’s Choice

by Roman Funderwood

Roman has told the children everyone’s story but his own — until tonight.

It is late, the tower is quiet, and Roman has built up the fire in the round room. He sends the defenders away, settles Jack and Alice in deep chairs, and does something he has never done before: he begins at the beginning. “I was seven years old when I got lost.” Night after night, the lost boy’s story unfolds — how Lupa found him, how each defender taught him in turn, how Aquila showed him that true sight means seeing what things are, and that knowing means you have to care. But one part of his story Roman has never told anyone. A fireside tale about how a lost boy became a Keeper — and what keeping asks.

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