My long term goal is a beach house, complete with cabana boy. I love my family, and their support in my writing and publishing endeavors means everything to me.Ĭurrently I live in North Carolina. My parents are former Marines, and I have two sisters and a brother. Military brat born and raised, and that shows in every part of me. Writing is my favorite thing to do, but when I’m not doing that I like to cook, bake, and pretend I know how to use photoshop. Outside of those primary obsessions, I love coffee, chocolate, and crime shows. Past that, I’m all over the board – fantasy, supernatural, contemporary, space operas, you name it. But, I think it’s safe to say that romance and fantasy are my primary stopping grounds :3 I love writing slash, it works for me in a way that writing other things never did. I’m pretty equal opportunity, there is very little I do not like to read. Add in some purse lifting and turning a few tricks in the streets, and he might be able to pull together five marks.Writing and reading are my life. When the local crime lord drags Rath out of bed and tells him he has three days to pay his fathers latest debt, Rath doesnt know what to do. Unfortunately, his father brings him too much troubleand too many debts to payfor that to ever be possible. If he got another couple of good nights in the brothel, he'd be sure to pull in another mark, possibly two if the Fates would just once show him favor. All Rath wants is a quiet, peaceful life. If not for his father, he'd have been living a lot better than he did. All from 10.28 New Books from 10.28 Used Books from 12.

Then a friend poses an idea just ridiculous enough to work: enter the Tournament of Losers, where every seventy-five years, peasants compete for the chance to marry into. Whoring didn't usually bring in money that good, but between the group service and the fact they were from out of town… Well, one of the reasons he'd become a whore was the money. There's no way to come up with so much money in so little time. That was two marks in total for him-a year. Rath doesn't think he'll win anyone's hand, but the living stipend competitors receive should cover his father's debts. Every seventy five years, peasants compete for a chance to marry into the royal and noble houses. At least the group of five lords and ladies had been so pleased they'd left him a full mark tip in addition to the two marks they paid to the house for his services. He enters the Tournament of Charlet, colloquially known as the Tournament of Losers. Last night hadn't been bad as such things went, but he was in no hurry to repeat the venture.

He groaned as he sat up, wincing at every ache and pain that made itself known. He could hear the cry of vendors and shopkeeps outside, the bustle of shoppers, which meant it was well into morning. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: What reading level is Tournament of Losers book?

Tournament of Losers by Megan Derr