The Queen's First Longrifle

A frontier raised him. An ancient people claimed him. A queen will give him a name history remembers.

Rowan Wheaton has spent his life caught between worlds.

Born Anari but raised among humans on the wild frontier of Vaelthara, Rowan knows the crack of a longrifle better than the songs of his own people. He hunts goblins, walks forgotten forests, and carries fragments of a heritage he barely understands. But when violence tears away the life he has built, Rowan turns north in pursuit of answers, vengeance, and the Anari family he lost long ago.

His journey leads through ruined lands, volcanic secrets, ancient magic, and clans scattered by catastrophe. It also leads him to Kellyn Windstream, the Queen of Swords, who is attempting something no one has accomplished before: unite the divided Anari clans against an enemy waiting in the future.

Kellyn has warriors.

She has mages.

She has legends standing beside her.

What she has never had is an Anari who fights with a human longrifle.

Rowan is about to change that.

But before he can stand beside a queen, he must discover what became of the White Hart Clan, confront the legacy left by his mother, and decide whether a man raised between two peoples can truly belong to either.

Because Rowan Wheaton may have begun his life as a refugee carried out of a dying forest.

He may have grown up as a human frontiersman.

But history will know him by another name.

The Queen's First Longrifle.

The Queen's First Longrifle is Book Five of The Time Bureau Files, an epic science-fantasy adventure of lost civilizations, frontier survival, ancient magic, time travel, clan warfare, and the strange collisions between history and destiny.