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Half an Orange in Gretna Green
(2026)(The seventh book in the Midlife Recorder series)
A novel by Linzi Day
Galicia should be warmth, wine and golden sunsets.
Instead, Niki McKnight finds a realm where every blessing has a price, every sin comes with a fine, and a powerful church has spent centuries collecting anything of value.
Following directly on from the end of Spilling the Tea in Gretna Green, the Recorder is called to arbitrate what appears to be a simple goat dispute. Niki expects to hear both sides, deliver a fair decision, and send everyone home with minimal shouting, sighing, and zero divine intervention.
But simple ends the moment she starts pulling threads.
Behind Galicia’s beauty lies a culture shaped by greed, gold, guilt, and carefully polished lies. Children are controlled. Inhabitants are oppressed. Grief is exploited. And the people responsible are certain the Recorder’s authority does not apply to them.
For the first time, they may be right.
With Dola out of patience, the truth obscured, the Gateway crew struggling, and a god on the missing list, Niki must separate faith from control and truth from propaganda.
Warm, wry, and defiant, Half an Orange in Gretna Green is the next adventure in the Midlife Recorder world: found family, stubborn hope, dangerous secrets, and one woman discovering that justice is harder to deliver when her usual powers don’t apply.
Genre: Fantasy
Instead, Niki McKnight finds a realm where every blessing has a price, every sin comes with a fine, and a powerful church has spent centuries collecting anything of value.
Following directly on from the end of Spilling the Tea in Gretna Green, the Recorder is called to arbitrate what appears to be a simple goat dispute. Niki expects to hear both sides, deliver a fair decision, and send everyone home with minimal shouting, sighing, and zero divine intervention.
But simple ends the moment she starts pulling threads.
Behind Galicia’s beauty lies a culture shaped by greed, gold, guilt, and carefully polished lies. Children are controlled. Inhabitants are oppressed. Grief is exploited. And the people responsible are certain the Recorder’s authority does not apply to them.
For the first time, they may be right.
With Dola out of patience, the truth obscured, the Gateway crew struggling, and a god on the missing list, Niki must separate faith from control and truth from propaganda.
Warm, wry, and defiant, Half an Orange in Gretna Green is the next adventure in the Midlife Recorder world: found family, stubborn hope, dangerous secrets, and one woman discovering that justice is harder to deliver when her usual powers don’t apply.
Genre: Fantasy
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