Blackberry in the Valley. The King Under the Mountain

Maria Gurova's debut novel «Blackberry in the Valley. The King Under the Mountain» is part of the series about the Sleeping King.
The first part of the trilogy, each part of which consists of a prequel story and the main novel.

War is a tradition.
In a harsh era in the kingdom of Escalot, two teenagers are growing up.
Tristan Trouver, a novice of the chivalric Order of Palers, meets a fairy in the forest, falls in love for the first time, and faces a choice between feelings and duty.
Ilya Havel, the son of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, learns that he is destined to become the guide of the ancient king and the successor to the current one.
Victory will belong to the states that revive the national heroes of the past in an age when tanks and airplanes have replaced swords and shields.
Together, Ilya and Tristan will go to the front and search for the legendary tomb.
Will the boys, who grew up in a world without magic, be able to awaken the king under the mountain?

The series about the Sleeping King is a series of works with classic plots from European literature, set in a universe reminiscent of our world in the 1920s to 1940s.

About the author:
Maria Gurova is a graduate student at the M. Gorky Literary Institute, director of the Rostov Theater of Poets, and a winner of the «Russian Rhymes» award in 2016.
She has been published in collections by Eksmo-AST, «Literary Newspaper», and magazines such as «Youth», «Literary Studies», «Southern Star», «Moscow», etc.
She is the author of the projects «Frontline Brigade» (reconstruction of propaganda brigades and theaters during World War II) and the collection of contemporary military-historical poetry and essays «Eternal World».