Freeman Martin's early life was quite humiliating, as everyone knew him to be a rude man who had done only one thing to shatter the peace of his hometown—he chased the future Duke Mecklen, sword in hand, who ran wildly through the streets as if he were "walking a bird."
But in his later years, he became a cultural celebrity, known across both the New and Old Continents by his pen name "Freeman Simon Qing Martin." He was posthumously heralded as the ancestor of erotic literature, the founder of the racy novel genre, history's shameless author, the Old Continent's fastest draw in the literary arena, and the most unscrupulous wordsmith among other distinguished yet vulgar titles.
Freeman Martin was also one of the best-selling novelists across the New and Old Continents...
Ah, but all the royalties had gone to Charles, not a cent had made it to him.
