Randall Fox Stories

Randall, a fox, finds himself fleeing from his life in the city of Lakehurst into the woods of his childhood after his friend Harley, a hare priest, is declared a heretic by the new Bishop of Lakehurst. Along with Harley's stag champion, Samuel, the young squirrels Lois and Michael, and Marta, the black cat user of magic, he will have to find a way out of the clutches of Sheriff Malcolm and to Port Wintersong-where salvation might lie with the realm's archbishop or king. This revised edition has been extensively reworked to restore the original human (or fox) written text before any alterations were made using generative AI.

When Randall travels to Port Wintersong to attend Lord Rahn's graduation from secondary school, he thought it would be a short trip. But when his best friend suggests that they walk together as he transitions to the next part of his life, becoming a student at Jones College at the University of Markhurst, Randall agrees. As the pair walk across the kingdom, they will have to put up with misunderstandings and questions about how their friendship will change as they grow.

Randall continues to help with the young creatures of the Old Dock Quarter, instead of spending his summer escorting caravans and scholastic expeditions. But the real goal is to find and stop whoever is behind the chaos in the area. A personal attack on Randall might throw their efforts off or kick them in the right direction.

Randall has recommitted to his role as a scout and guard. His first opportunity comes from an unexpected place: Doctor Leslie, one of the student scholars he and Marta saved from the wolf slavers during the late Doctor Henry's expedition to excavate under the henge near Lakehurst, wants him and Marta to accompany her first excavation. This sounds like a simple trip to a site far north in the Duchy of the North Fjords. But the locals seem to be less than welcoming to the delegation from Markhurst University. Randall finds himself in an unusual position, serving as guard, counselor, and assistant, while trying to decide whether the local population of reindeer and huskies poses a threat or is simply unfriendly.

Doctor Leslie wants to hire Randall, Marta, and the young squirrels for another expedition. This time, they are heading all the way to the Pontifical States in the Long Peninsula. The site is in the catacombs under the headquarters of the Global Unified Church in the Eternal City of Firetto. Before they even arrive, Randall will have to deal with a wolf who does not want to be seen, bored squirrels, unusual customs, and the fact that both Michael and he had to cut short their counseling in order to make the trip.

Randall and Rahn figured married life would be easy. The adoption of a six-year-old kitten, a larger household staff, the abdication of King Arthur, and Randall getting talked into serving the uncrowned King George as one of his advisors already complicated their lives. When their butler is accused of murdering an old nemesis known to both Randall and Rhan, they are thrown into a web of competing political ideologies, foreign spies, and legal troubles. And they still must deal with the complexities of parenting both a young kitten and a teenage wolf who is discovering more about himself than his powerful magical abilities. This is the first novel-length adventure featuring Randall, now Lord Randall, and his friends and family.

After Randall had a big fight with his best friend, a friend whose betrayal had left him so upset he won't even say his friend's name or let his companions, Marta, Michael, or Lois mention him, he starts to fear that he is becoming the bloodthirsty monster he has always feared he might become-truly the son of Curtis his murdering father. He finds that he can only contain this beast, or at least the fear that he is becoming this beast, by putting on the muzzle he took from the slavers who wanted to enslave him years earlier. When someone burns down Harley's home, Samuel, Harley's Stag champion, insists that Randall step outside of his comfort zone and track the arsonists. Randall finds himself alone in the woods with the stag, in pursuit of one monster while worrying that he might be an even bigger monster.

The opportunity to escort pilgrims from Lakehurst to the Shrine of Saint Herbert on the Inland Sea coast of Terra de Gossos for more than they had made the entire previous summer sounded to Randall and Marta like a perfect opportunity. Or at least if they could set aside their concerns about the lack of staples and detailed route planning by the stoat and badger monks who hired them. Accompanied by a trainee champion, Samuel the Stag, they set out with sixteen large pilgrims, including a jovial bear, a wolf whose health might not be as good as he lets on, and a silent, limping moose penitent with a rumored criminal background. Will they be able to bring this pilgrimage all the way from Lakehurst to the far coast across the Altes, the legendary mountains, or will the trouble that always seems to follow Randall again find him?

When Randall is hired to travel to Gefrorenehölzer to guard the famous vixen singer Lorelei, the trip leads to an unexpected encounter with unknown family. Randall once again finds himself embroiled in the politics of Adelaarsland, the empire east and south, an empire of vicious warlords and distant eagle nobles. Randall must navigate these new dangers and complications without any of his usual friends and allies

Randall starts dreaming of past fights, but now in these dreams, he is consuming his fallen foes. Someone is targeting the fox lord and unofficial advisor to the newly crowned King George, probably using a custom, magically infused potion. But it's more than bad, or good but disturbing, dreams, Randall is starting to crave flesh. It becomes a race to find who is targeting Randall, stop them, and counter the potion before the madness destroys Randall.

Randall is having a bad day. His well has gone bad, and a gopher is digging him a new one. He has tripped and fallen into the trench the gopher cut clear across his lawn, spilling the berries he wanted to preserve, and breaking the jars he was going to preserve them in. And he's stained his fur. But things are only going to get worse. When he goes to the community well to get water, he discovers that his friend Harley, the hare priest who saved his life three years earlier, is missing, and there is blood in Harley's office. When the sheriff's new inspector fails to take the case seriously, Randall and Harley's newly appointed champion, the stag Samuel, instead investigate Harley's abduction on their own. This leads them into Lakehurst's burgeoning problem with gangs of young creatures ready to go to war over parts of the Old Dock Quarter, the part of the city that Randall and Harley call home.

Randall and his friends are hired to protect a group of history scholars led by Doctor Van, who are traveling to the Foxwoods to study the legendary fox Reynard. Randall is concerned since part of the Foxwoods lies in his home, the Duchy of Lakehurst, which is now under the control of Duke Albert, who has been acting like the Warlord of Wildomar, who raised him. But turns out his bigger issue is the troubling dreams, dreams where he takes on the role of the legendary fox, who organized the foxes of the Foxwoods a century before Uther's conquest to protect all the creatures from an earlier invader.

Lord William wants Randall to deliver a note, in secret, to Hoverstad, the capital of the Duchy of the North Fjords. This will require that he travel nearly the entire length of their kingdom, by himself, while Marta and the Squirrels travel with one of Lord William's caravans into Terra de Gossos, where they had some trouble three years earlier. But it is Randall who finds himself in trouble. After some old nemesis attack him, a mysterious young fox finds him in his desperate condition and offers to escort him along the way. Randall finds himself traveling with this strangely familiar young Rey, wondering who this young fox is and why he trusts him so much.

While Randall recovers at Percy and Lois' cottage from the injuries sustained when the bald eagle Manuel attacked him, an unexpected guest at a formal dinner the pair host causes him some emotional trauma on top of his recovery. While dealing with the impact of an unexpected reunion, Randall also is forced to deal with The Guardian of the Library at Elham's demands for the books he recovered on a quest years before, and the mysteries surrounding these books.

When Marta told Randall they had a job, he thought that it would be a nice break from counting beans and other boring tasks that had kept him occupied since returning from his adventure with Rahn. But escorting the twelve-year-old son of an Inspector working for the Sheriff of Lakehurst to safety after an attack on their office, so soon after leaving his dear friend, was not the job Randall expected. Neither were the complications of the trip, including poorly marked river fords, tiny hostile creatures, or trapped wolves wanting Randall's help to return to Wildomar. Can Randall and Marta keep this pup safe while navigating these other trials? How will Randall deal with another young creature falling into his care at a time when he's still unsure if he is a kit or an adult fox, and uncertain how he feels about Rahn?

Randall wakes to discover he has grown a second tail and rediscovers his forgotten kitsune heritage. This triggers him to remember spending a week displaced in time correcting history. On top of this, he is forced to deal with the ramifications of secrets, new and old. For Randall, this is a time of transformation and change. It is a time when he must assess the future, perhaps not just for himself but for his family, the kingdom, and even the world at large.

Randall returns to Lakehurst after the adventure and quest with his cougar cub friend Rahn, but a disturbing note sends him fleeing to his childhood home. There, he encounters a mysterious individual who sends him back in time. In the past, Randall is forced to deal with the last individual he expected and with a tiny fox kit. They are all relying on the young fox for their survival, while Randall has to make sure that he puts the timeline back on track to ensure his own future and survival.

After returning from their fraught trip to Terra de Gossos, a simple job escorting Doctor Leslie and her students from Markhurst University sounded like a reasonable way to end the summer. But her destination was the Spire, a magical monolith in the center of the Dark Woods, a circle of trees where daylight rarely reaches the ground, and jurisdictions cannot decide who should enforce the law. Complicating matters is the discovery of the body of the only other member of the theater troupe that Lois and Michael, Randall's squirrel protégées and surrogate children, belonged to before being orphaned, a threatening note, and a mysterious follower.

Randall the fox and his friends face a new challenge when the young Duke Edward summons them to a meeting with the visiting white-tail eagle, Prince Igor. Prince Igor wants their help in freeing the Principality of Wildomar from the clutches of the wolf warlord Matilda. Will Randal, his friends Lois the squirrel, Harley the hare, Samuel the stag, Matilda the cat, Stella the goat, and Jeremiah the crow, be able to come up with a plan to free the people of Wildomar without getting any or everyone killed in the process?