Book overview
He saved a town no one knew he could. Now no one can ever know it was him.
Eighteen-year-old Arthur Pendrake is the boy nobody notices - the farmhand who mends fences, hauls water, and fades into the fog before dawn. In Briar Hollow, invisibility has always felt safer than being seen.
Then he finds Calibur: a lightning-struck revolver bound by an ancient oath. It will heighten his aim, read a bullet's path, even strike lead from the air - but it fires only in defense, and it carries a price that grows with every shot. Worse, the oath demands a secret. The moment Arthur confirms aloud that he is the bearer, the magic dies forever.
So he rides masked. No name, no face, no credit. When Silas "Redstitch" Vane and his Red Sashes give Briar Hollow until high noon to sign their lives away, an unknown rider answers - and a single impossible gunshot turns a frightened town into a witch-hunt.
Arthur learns the hardest truth of all: a secret can protect people, but carrying a town alone will break the one who tries. A sharp-eyed cardsharp, a young goblin tracker, and an outmatched sheriff gather around him - four people, one Table, no one allowed to say his name. And far beyond the badlands, the Iron Crown is listening for relics exactly like Calibur.
To save Briar Hollow, Arthur must master a weapon that punishes pride, hold a line without becoming the thing he fights, and decide whether a legend is worth more than being known.
"No man rides alone."
Perfect for readers who love:
- Weird-Western fantasy with grit, heart, and a touch of magic
- Reluctant heroes, secret identities, and found family
- A magic system with real rules, real limits, and real cost
The Oath of Calibur is the first book in the Goblins & Gunslingers series - a cinematic frontier-fantasy adventure of courage, restraint, and the people who ride beside you. Saddle up.
