Numpty The Famous Scottish Fule

Ewan MacDarragh is poor, hungry, quick-tongued, and dangerously good at making people laugh. When a royal court needs a fool, he becomes the Gowk, then Numpty-the famous Scottish fule whose bells open doors he was never meant to enter. But court laughter has rules, and Ewan learns them the hard way through geese, spilled wine, ruined caps, public mistakes, and women who correct him sharper than any king.
Zuri Adeyemi, trusted confidant to Queen Marguerite, is no prize to be won and no joke to be carried by a fool's tongue. She is measured, private, beautiful, and exacting. If Ewan wants nearness, he must learn that hunger gives him no rights, affection without honor is selfishness, and love cannot ask the room to applaud. Funny, romantic, and disciplined, Numpty, The Famous Scottish Fule is a royal historical comedy about laughter that protects instead of wounds, a man becoming worthy beneath the bells, and a woman whose name must never vanish into his legend.