My Orkney Valentine

A Camelot West Virginia Valentine Tale

Love. Murder. Miracles. Moonshine. A possibly possessed board game. And commemorative t-shirts.

Valentine’s Day in Camelot, West Virginia is exactly what you’d expect… and more.

It’s no surprise that Camelot heartthrob, firefighter, cop, and unapologetic cat daddy John Wayne Orkney was born on Valentine’s Day. What is surprising is what surfaces after the birthday snacks are gone, the moonshine is flowing, and Suzy and Arvin Lee Orkney’s half-feral foster son, Gallagher Lance, asks a seemingly simple question:

How did you two find each other again?

Thirty years ago, Suzy Morgan and Arvin Lee Orkney were anything but a love story. There was a stolen baby. A brutal marriage. Dangerous men who don’t stay buried. A holler with rules that shift when you aren’t watching. There were crows. There were disappearances. And there was a common enemy who never stopped circling.

Told through the lens of Appalachian Gothic—where old magic lingers in the hills, memory bends, and mystery bleeds into the everyday—the heartstopping truth unfolds as the seemingly sentient board game Junior designed for John Wayne’s birthday begins dropping cryptic clues the family can’t ignore.

What comes out is a story about fate and memory, loyalty and survival, and what it really takes to protect a family when the past refuses to stay buried.

Because some love stories aren’t sweet.
They’re forged/

And in Camelot, even the devil knows better than to come for Suzy Orkney—or anything she claims as hers.

Grab this Valentine-themed Camelot novella weaving Appalachian Gothic magic and mystery into the deeper mythology of the Camelot series today!