Harthem Garls

This lyrical political-domestic novel follows Hertham Garls, once the commanding chairman and CEO of a major telecommunications empire, who makes a radical choice: he steps away from power to raise the triplets he shares with his wife, Dr. U Jane Garls, the newly appointed Viceroy and head of Brandilla’s government. As Jane shoulders the fierce scrutiny and isolation of national leadership, Hertham confronts a different, quieter trial—public ridicule for taking paternal leave, accusations that he has abandoned his role as “provider,” and the unsettling freedom of a life measured not in profits or polls, but in lullabies, letters, and ordinary days. Across eight interwoven chapters, the book moves from palace balconies and televised interviews to nurseries, kitchens, and moonlit corridors, where love is renegotiated in the spaces between duty and desire. Hertham’s intimate letters to Jane, his clashes with a society that mistrusts caregiving men, and the couple’s shared struggle to redefine power become a tender, philosophical meditation on gender, sacrifice, and what it means to stay when the world only honors those who leave. Hertham Garls is a poetic, character-driven exploration of marriage, governance, and fatherhood that asks a simple but subversive question: if true authority is the courage to be present, who really rules a nation—the one on the balcony, or the one in the nursery?