Forum: Lost Stories

I finally bit the bullet and joined SOL. As such I can now download and save some of my favorite stories from the many years I was a free (cheap) user. The problem is that I've forgotten the titles of some of my favorites. I'm going to post information on each as I slowly remember them. This is a short description of the first one whose title I don't remember.
It was set in the times of knights, kings, etc. A young man is being raised by his Mother and Step-father in a neighboring country aligned with the King's country. As I recall his Mother is the sister of the King but I could be remembering that wrong. Anyway, the boy is the 'second son' and can't inherit from his father so he is sent to the King's capital where he is to undergo Knight training. He turns out to be better than all the other trainees and catches the eye of the King's brother who is in charge of the trainees. He also catches the eye of the King's daughter, however, in later chapters she turns out to be a bit of a slut and our hero ends up with another woman. The hero eventually leads the army against the countries foes and his mother is reunited with the King's Court.
I know it is not much to go on but does anyone recognize this story?

Maybe Jay Cantrell's "Always on Guard"? Dad and step-mom though not mom and step-dad...the rest seems to match though.

"Jorgarn Elmwood's only goal was to avoid the life of a priest. He would have settled for becoming a sailor, a soldier or possibly even a thief. So how does he manage to woo and lose a Princess, destroy a would-be empire, raise a new country, avert a civil war and wed a Queen? It's all his stepmother's fault."

https://storiesonline.net/s/70888/always-on-guard

Sunseeker.....that's it!! Thank you so much. I should have thought of it because Jay Cantrell is one of my favorite authors here. He hasn't posted since 2020 so I hope he is still around. I've always enjoyed this story along with the Brock Miller stories but my all time favorite is "The Rise of Azkoval". I wish he would come back and finish it. Or if he is gone, perhaps another author could step in.
Anyway, thank you so much.