One Good Knight
core novel 2006 Five Hundred Kingdoms
Record
| First published | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.89 (11,154 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 400 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780373802173 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
One Good Knight follows Princess Andromeda of a coastal kingdom threatened by a marauding dragon, who, following the Tradition's expectations for such situations, volunteers herself as the sacrifice meant to appease the creature, requesting only a sword so she is not left entirely defenseless. When the promised weapon never arrives, Andromeda is left to face the dragon essentially alone, until a traveling knight named Sir George arrives to help, though his conventional heroics prove insufficient against the danger she faces. Rather than accept a solution that would leave her kingdom still vulnerable, Andromeda joins forces with George to track down the true source of the threat, defying the Tradition's usual expectations of a rescued princess along the way.
Where it sits
- Universe: Five Hundred Kingdoms
- Series: Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms core; position 2 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mercedes Lackey
Notes
- From the series record (Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms): A completed 7-book sequence of standalone fairy-tale-retelling novels sharing one meta-fictional secondary world ("The Tradition", a narrative-causality force that pushes real lives toward familiar fairy-tale shapes), published 2004-2012 by Luna/Harlequin.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms: position 2 of 7: previous The Fairy Godmother (2004) · next Fortune's Fool (2007)
Sources
- Rating-platform listing: Five Hundred Kingdoms series
- Reference listing: A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms
- https://thelibraryofthegodmothers.fandom.com/wiki/One_Good_Knight
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