The Fourth Level – Book 8 – Bon Vacances

Bon Vacances

In recognition for the tremendous humanitarian servitude of the Cabernet family, notably Derby Martel de la Cabernet, the French government has awarded Charlemagne de la Cabernet, and by extension, the Cabernet family with France’s highest merit. Not soon after finding himself in the limelight of the press, the mainstream media turn on Charlemagne as he wanders into a Gilets Jaune protest in Paris, making populist remarks and showing his support for the protests against the French government, which the media come to interpret as ‘racist’ and claim that the Cabernet family is not even French at all in an attempt to delegitimize the family and their honor.

Furious, Charlemagne, his girlfriend, and the children set off on a road trip across all of that composes the French realm, meeting with locals and seeing the beautiful countryside and many cities of France as he attempts to prove the media wrong. However, this good family vacation quickly turns deadly as ‘accidents’ begin to occur that are too coincidental to even be determined to be accidental, but appear to be the work of an assassin.

Is it all a coincidence? Is there an assassin? Is the Cabernet family even French? Why would someone want to assassinate Charlemagne? Is it political or more…?

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The Fourth Level – Book 4 – Outlaw

Diana Cambridge cannot take it anymore. The rural life in Allabrese has become too much for the city street orphan that she is, or so it seems, as her behavior appears to have changed since the last adventure. However, Diana is able to find solace in an unexpected friendship with a strange black horse and an estranged black aristocrat, Arturo Medici. In addition, Diana soon finds herself competing in equestrian races to cope with the anxiety that pulses from within in an attempt to run from what she cannot run from.

Charlemagne and Tristan are aware of the change in Diana’s behavior, but Charlemagne is powerless to intervene and instead antagonizes poor Diana, while Tristan is conflicted by his own emotions, and the two instead worsen the situation. Tristan, whose own ego and buried emotions from a former trauma keep him from approaching Diana, the two are at risk of indefinitely separating themselves and going their own way.

What aches poor Diana’s heart? Was it the rush of the last adventure, Tristan, or is there more from her former life that she is hiding? Will Tristan overcome himself and intervene, or will he let Diana consume herself?

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