After accidentally becoming Lord of Gloomwood Manor, countless enemies seek to kill Drake and take his title.
All he wanted was some beer and a pack of donuts. Instead, Drake got abducted, tossed into a fantasy world, and almost ritually executed by a pro-wrestler monk with performance issues.
After stabbing his rather idiotic kidnapper to death, he magically inherits the old fart’s massive mansion, servants, mountains of gold, and deadly magic powers… which would be great if it also didn’t paint a giant target on his back.
Now that he’s the Lord of Gloomwood Manor, enemies across the world want to claim Drake’s life and title. Before that happens, he must learn to use his powerful magic, win his people’s loyalty, and fake being powerful until he actually becomes so powerful no one dares challenge him.
The first volume of a humorous, adventure-packed Progression Fantasy featuring cat girls, battle maids, political machinations, and a habit of setting the worst Isekai tropes on fire and tossing them in the garbage.
Drake has secured his manor and his people’s loyalty. Now, it’s time to go on offense.
Confronted with a mandatory summons from the capital city, Drake reluctantly takes his new manor on the road. Now protected by his loyal battle maids, his fierce zarovian soldiers, and his powerful new rarity, he’ll face evil assassins, clueless bounty hunters, and ruthless mercenaries on his way to a council with manor lords who hope to remove him from power.
Yet with the help of his loyal steward, his savvy butler, and a surprisingly bloodthirsty fellow manor lord, Drake will challenge those who seek to unseat him with rumor and doublespeak.
Through careful negotiation, well-placed deceptions, and sheer unmitigated chutzpah, Drake must strip away the layers of the conspiracy that threatens him and secure his role as a manor lord no other will challenge… and a ruler even the powerful noble court must respect.
Now a friend of the noble court, Drake can rest easy… until the fish people attack.
With the grand conspiracy that threatened Drake’s people now behind him, he has the trust of the noble court, the gratitude of the capital city, and time for a day on the beach with his loyal staff. Yet after that beach day turns deadly, a new faction rears its smelly head. Forced to ally with his former enemies, Drake must turn his wits and power toward a brand new threat.
After all he’s endured Drake wants no part of the coming war, but war may come for him. As he travels home, he gathers new allies and readies his army for a fishy invasion. While many still seek to take Gloomwood Manor from him, anyone who tries will face his loyal battle maids, his zarovian army, his living forest, and the most powerful manor lord in the realm.
And his mom.
T. E. Bakutis, Author 