Meztli- Sacrificial Maiden-
Our latest novel Meztli - Sacrificial Maiden is set in the Inca Empire in 1530 and will be published mid-year 2015. Meztli and her friend Cualli are rescued by a young man, Zolin after being left to freeze to death on a mountain plateau as human sacrifices. However, they cannot return home and set out across the mountains to find a new home chased by an evil priest who is working for the conquistadors who have invaded Inca lands.
Meztli - Sacrificial Maiden is at present being written and should be published in mid 2015.
The Druid's Daughter-
It is 320 AD and Hadrian's Wall separates Roman Britannia from the lands to the north where the village of Darbarri is located. There, Jelena is asked by her father Druid Floyd to travel south of the wall into Roman territory to help the people in the village of Bramfield. It is a dangerous area for the new Roman emperor has declare that everyone living in the Roman Empire should convert to their new faith.
For the Celtic, this means giving up their beliefs with numerous gods and practices. Druids are not welcomed in Roman lands anymore even though they had helped villagers for centuries. With three friends, Olwina, Tad and Craddock she manages to reach Luguvahum the largest city south of the wall but with it, a surprise and perhaps the reason why her father sent her south in the first place. She finds he has taken a third wife, Kigva and she is having a difficult time giving birth to a child.
Jelena's tiny half-brother is born but danger surrounds them everywhere. An over-zealous Bishop Eucid wants them all arrested for blasphemy against the new faith but they are forewarned and escape from the city to head for the village of Bramfield, Jelena's original destination.
There, she must stop the villagers from using polluted water, overcome local superstitions, problems at a nearby Roman lead mine and establish her own position as a leader. There is also Kigva to befriend and the baby to look after.
As well as the bishop, she finds another enemy is Bard Griffon from her home village, who wants to force her to marry him in the summer selection of brides. This ancient practice is banned by Druid Floyd's latest decree but is ignored by the ruthless bard.
How do Jelena, friends and extended family cope? There is not one but two ruthless men on their trail while at the same time she must help villagers under her care and survive in the hostile Roman territory. She befriends many and alienates others in this exciting story of our ancient ancestors from almost one thousand, seven hundred years ago?
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An Ancient Ancestors Novel
It is 865AD when three Viking longships arrive at the female Bramingham Monastery on the isolated coast of the Kingdom of Northumbria. The building is looted with everything of value taken by the pagans. Abbess Jane and senior nuns are slaughtered and the younger nuns abducted into slavery. Maiden Kendra, minding the monastery sheep on the top plateau during the attack survives.
One other survivor, postulant Jolene finds her and together they return to the monastery. Secrets are discovered that both help and hinder including secret tunnels, a mine and evidence of clandestine trading with Vikings. However, the security of being in the monastery is better than the hostile world outside.
A flag message from a village up the coast warns them that a King's knight is coming but he is not to be trusted. A large force of knights and King's army arrive but all the steps and entrances to the monastery are collapsed using ancient mechanisms they find. The King's army is held out but set up a permanent camp on the beach. The monastery is under siege and with winter coming there is every chance that they will be starved into submission.
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One other survivor, postulant Jolene finds her and together they return to the monastery. Secrets are discovered that both help and hinder including secret tunnels, a mine and evidence of clandestine trading with Vikings. However, the security of being in the monastery is better than the hostile world outside.
A flag message from a village up the coast warns them that a King's knight is coming but he is not to be trusted. A large force of knights and King's army arrive but all the steps and entrances to the monastery are collapsed using ancient mechanisms they find. The King's army is held out but set up a permanent camp on the beach. The monastery is under siege and with winter coming there is every chance that they will be starved into submission.
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