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Heirs of Samandahl
THE KNIFE OF TRUTH
An Heirs of Samandahl Novella
What price would you put on life?
Erich is a touch healer, both blessed and cursed with a rare psychic gift – the ability to transfer his own life force into others to heal them. Even though this gift gradually depletes his own life, he can’t stop, because the urge to heal is so strong it overrides his survival instincts. None with this gift reach the age of thirty, and Erich is twenty-eight. His time’s running out.
Calandra loves Erich and is desperate to save him. When a seer offers her a powerful crystal which might hold Erich’s salvation, she eagerly accepts. Like all seers, his vision is cryptic. Find the Knife of Truth, he tells her, but doesn’t say where, or how.
Seeking answers, Calandra and Erich cross oceans and deserts in search of the Knife, and the magic at its heart. But magic always carries a cost. What will the knife demand?
WITCH QUEEN
Book 1 of The Heirs of Samandahl
Think you know all the Snow White story? Think again.
Queen Grizel is the only one qualified to train her stepdaughter as a priestess so she can inherit the throne. When the princess goes missing, Grizel is determined to find her, but the king, as well as a group of mysterious dwarves, seem equally determined to stop her. Her only ally is Duncan, the leader of the king’s mercenaries, but even he distrusts her motives.
Grizel’s efforts to convince him that she means her stepdaughter no harm result in a new conflict – she risks falling in love with Duncan.
Giving into love means losing power and Grizel likes being a queen. She’d like to have it all – love, freedom and her title – but that may not be possible. Which will she lose? Which will she keep?
The Blodeuedd Trilogy
FLOWERFACE
The first novel in the Blodeuedd Trilogy.
Hell hath no fury like a goddess scorned.
Born of flowers and magic, Blodeuedd is tied to the handsome sun-god Lleu in an eternal marriage. Even when she meets a mortal man who shows her the meaning of true love, she remains faithful to her husband.
Then she discovers that not just her marriage but her entire life has been built on lies and secrets, that she was created solely to serve Lleu’s agenda.
Fighting not just for vengeance but for survival, Blodeuedd seeks to protect herself and those she loves from the machinations of her husband and his family. The question is…can a mere vegetation goddess triumph against Lleu, the powerful Summer King?
A tale of myth and magic, Flowerface springs from ancient roots in the Welsh Mabinogian.
OWLFEATHER
The sequel to Flowerface, Owlfeather springs from ancient roots in the Welsh Mabinogian and is intended for an adult audience.
Beware the Huntress of the Night
Vengeange is coming for immortal Blodeuedd and she needs to prepare. Already her home is ringed by impenetrable forests. No one can enter or leave unless they know the right spell. Birds patrol the skies, primed to give warning if the enemy approaches.
And the name of that enemy? Her estranged husband, Lleu, the Summer King. Free of the eagle form Blodeuedd trapped him in order to escape her marriage, Lleu plans to destroy everything she holds dear. He’s accompanied by the shapeshifter Gwydion, Blodeuedd’s creator and nemesis, who has his own special revenge planned.
Blodeuedd fights to escape being turned into a bird herself and save her friends. But can she protect her lover, The Winter King, from death at the hands of Summer’s Lord?
SOULFLIGHT
Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
The third and final volume in the Blodeuedd Trilogy. Owlfeather springs from ancient roots in the Welsh Mabinogian and is intended for an adult audience.
Trickster, God of Poet, Lord of Chaos, Shapeshifter
Those are Gwydion’s titles. He’s proud to own them, but nobody truly understands what drives him. All he wanted was to raise his son Lleu in peace. Was that too much to ask?
Apparently, yes. For now the other gods have taken Lleu away from him, and his efforts to retrieve the Summer King are continually thwarted by two powerful goddesses and their acolytes.
Gwydion will do whatever it takes to get Lleu back, and his sister Arianrhod and Lleu’s former wife, the beautiful Blodeuwedd, are equally determined to stop him. Among shapeshifting gods, witches and not-so-ordinary mortals any outcome is possible. Meddling in the affairs of gods always carries a cost…
Gwydion, in the persona of Blaise, is still a threat, and the memory of Lleu is an ever-present shadow.
TRICKSTER’S BANE
Comprising two short stories, Trickster’s Bane is a loose retelling of a Welsh myth.
Even trickster gods can sometimes be too clever…
Gwydion is the poet’s god, sorcerer, shapeshifter, and trickster. Throughout his long life he’s taken whatever and whoever he wants, leaving a trail of victims along the way.
Two women dare stand against him.
One, the lovely raven-haired Goewin, wins the heart of an immortal king. But when Gwydion dishonours her and threatens her happily ever after, she and her lover seek a creative and brutal revenge.
The second is Gwydion’s sister Arianrhod, goddess of the moon and stars. When Gwydion steals her son from her, she’ll do whatever it takes to get him back—including using Gwydion’s own tactics against him.
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