The King's Harvest

By Ruth Everson

Nell Hartley has one question for the king. Can I go home?

He says yes. At midsummer. Until then, would she help his city?

Aldcaster has knelt in the snow to give to the crown for a hundred years and never once given gladly. When fever comes up from the river and the Lord Chancellor shuts the sick in to die, Nell takes them up the hill to the king's own door. Ten thousand people start giving to her. Every gift is a step closer to home.

Then she learns why she was brought here. The songs that went ahead of her were paid for. The road home has a price: everything the city has given her, handed to a dying king who has waited his whole life for a gift like it.

A man she once beat comes to her door with nothing left. By morning he is dead, and Wick has his blood on his hands. To save Wick, Nell makes the king a promise she cannot take back.

Now she holds four promises in two worlds. An old woman in Halifax waiting for the morning visit. A king. A goblin who asked her not to leave. And a valley where Tam will stand alone in the ford against a new lord.

She can't keep them all.

The King's Harvest is Book 2 of The Nurse Nell Chronicles: a LitRPG with game boxes, six stats and a Standing that climbs to Hearthlight.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HQ4KJR6F
• ISBN13: 9798167229617
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"