All the Wyrm's a Stage

Nobody warns you that the hardest part of starting over is how many people insist on helping.

Potipher wanted a quiet project. Four centuries underground had suited him fine, and if his wife had not died and left him a dream about rebuilding a theater, he would still be down there.

What he finds when he arrives in the sleepy village of Morrowdeep is worse than solitude. It's company.

An elf who pays for things and refuses to say so. An orc who treats every offhand remark as a commission. Fae schoolchildren, mud to the knees, eager to act on stage, though one of them will only play a rock. And worst of all, a lovely actress who calls him Pot and means it warmly.

Under all of it, a village that lost its luck a long time ago and has been waiting, without knowing it, for a reason to gather on a hill after dark.

Rebuilding the theater won't be the quiet project Potipher wants, but it might be the one he needs.

A cozy fantasy of found family, fresh starts, and one small dragon rebuilding a theater he had no business blowing up. All the Wyrm's a Stage is the first book in The Morrowdeep Wyrm series by Bryon Cahill. It's perfect for fans of Travis Baldree, Terry Pratchett, and TJ Klune.