Fool on the Hill

Stephen Titus George is a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University in upstate New York. An imaginative bestselling author in search of a new story, he's seeing his life as a modern-day fairy tale, and himself as a would-be knight looking to woo a lovely maiden-or two: the bewitching Calliope and his guiding light, Aurora Borealis Smith. However, his happy ending might not be up to him.

There's another writer who has a greater influence on campus. Unseen, yet twice as formidable, Mr. Sunshine is an eternal semi-retired deity who's been fashioning his own narrative for centuries. He has all his characters in place-dragons, sprites, gnomes, and villains. And now, finally, his hero. As Mr. Sunshine's world comes to fabulous and violent life, can Stephen decide his own fate if it's already being plotted by a god?