It Happened One Knight
(2026)(The third book in the Camelot, West Virginia: Season One series)
A novel by Cyn Mackley
Broken heroes. A haunted motel. A vanishing corpse. One night that will change everything.
John Wayne Orkney is barely holding it together after the events of Down Came a Blackbird. Grady Dale Orkney—the fanciest Orkney of them all—has his world rocked by one impossible question from his high school sweetheart.
A firefighter training trip is supposed to be an escape.
Instead, they end up at the crumbling Good Knight’s Rest Inn, where the staff is missing, an entire wing is sealed off, and a lost reservation forces a disturbingly handsome firefighter to bunk with them.
Then Grady Dale finds an overdosed teen.
Who vanishes.
With law enforcement unwilling to help and something deeply wrong hiding in the motel halls, Grady Dale follows his instincts into a single, dangerous night. What looks like luck—or magic—to his skeptical new ally may be something older, stranger, and unmistakably Orkney.
One night.
Kids in real danger.
An epic hallway fight.
It Happened One Knight is a fast-paced Appalachian mystery packed with humor, found family, quiet magic, and a hero who proves that not all knights wear shining armor.
Some show up in camo pants, eyeliner… and carry a stuffed alligator.
Improbably inspired by actual events. No one was harmed. Probably.
Start the newest Camelot West Virginia story today.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
John Wayne Orkney is barely holding it together after the events of Down Came a Blackbird. Grady Dale Orkney—the fanciest Orkney of them all—has his world rocked by one impossible question from his high school sweetheart.
A firefighter training trip is supposed to be an escape.
Instead, they end up at the crumbling Good Knight’s Rest Inn, where the staff is missing, an entire wing is sealed off, and a lost reservation forces a disturbingly handsome firefighter to bunk with them.
Then Grady Dale finds an overdosed teen.
Who vanishes.
With law enforcement unwilling to help and something deeply wrong hiding in the motel halls, Grady Dale follows his instincts into a single, dangerous night. What looks like luck—or magic—to his skeptical new ally may be something older, stranger, and unmistakably Orkney.
One night.
Kids in real danger.
An epic hallway fight.
It Happened One Knight is a fast-paced Appalachian mystery packed with humor, found family, quiet magic, and a hero who proves that not all knights wear shining armor.
Some show up in camo pants, eyeliner… and carry a stuffed alligator.
Improbably inspired by actual events. No one was harmed. Probably.
Start the newest Camelot West Virginia story today.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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