I have three projects 'on the go' at the moment. My epic fantasy romance, RULED BY SHADOWS has now been written and is now being edited, and I'm hard at work on WIND SONG, Book 2 of the Kingdom of Northumbria series. I've also just started BARBARIAN SLAVE, Book 2 of The Warrior Brothers of Skye series. Read more about all these projects below.
Ruled by Shadows Book #1: Light and Darkness
In a land ruled by shadows, the fate of all lies in the hands of a girl who is afraid of the dark.Meet Lilia, a young woman who is afraid of … everything.Lilia’s life changes the day a stranger walks into the tavern where she works as a cook. Handsome and darkly mysterious, Saul leaves a charm-stone in her safekeeping. Only, what appears to be a humble Hag Stone—used by folk to ward off evil spirits—is in reality a powerful talisman. One that a secret brotherhood has spent five-hundred years searching for.Life will never be the same for Lilia again.Her shadow begins behaving strangely—and when The Shade Brotherhood come after her, Lilia must leave her sleepy isle to embark on an epic journey into danger, discovery … and love. The shadows are deepening and an ancient evil risks being unleashed upon the world. Lilia must face the darkness, and her own fears—or there will be no going home.
MANUSCRIPT COMPLETE: EDITING IN PROCESS! ESTIMATED RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 2017
THE KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBRIA—BOOK #2
WIND SONG
HE RULES THE NORTHBUT SHE RULES HIS HEART Northumbria, Britain—684 AD
Hea isn’t like other women. The feisty daughter of a seer, she lives alone in the fort of Bebbanburg and survives by tending the sick and selling herbs and potions. However, she has also inherited her mother’s gift—and when King Ecgfrith requests her skills she can’t refuse him.
Ecgfrith, the ruler of Northumbria, is having trouble with the Picts, the warlike people to the north. He needs a seer’s guidance in dealing with them. The Pictish king, Bridei mac Beli, once fostered at Bebbanburg—but now he’s demanding freedom from his Saxon overlord.
Hea and Bridei know each other.
They grew up together and he once saved her from being raped. Hea has longed for him ever since. Eight years later they meet again, and sparks fly. Arrogant and ambitious, Bridei is used to getting what he wants—and Hea discovers he’s the only man she can’t refuse.
Yet he’s a Pict and she’s a Saxon. Bridei will do anything to win back his people’s land from Northumbria, and Hea has sworn her loyalty to a king who treats her more like a daughter than a servant. As the shadow of war looms, it seems any chance they have at love is lost … or is it?
MANUSCRIPT IN PROGRESS: 12%
THE WARRIOR BROTHERS OF SKYE—BOOK #2
BARBARIAN SLAVE
A ROMAN NOBLEWOMAN.A PICTISH WARRIOR. AN EPIC LOVE.
Lucrezia is the wife of a Roman soldier posted on the northernmost reach of the empire. It's not the life or the marriage she dreamed of—but as a noblewoman, Lucrezia lives more comfortably than most.
However, in the winter of 467 AD, her life changes forever. Barbarians from the north band together and attack Hadrian's Wall.
Tarl mac Muin, a Pictish warrior with a thirst for battle and glory, is part of the Barbarian Conspiracy that will change history. But when he prevents Lucrezia from being raped by another warrior, and takes her as his own slave, he sets off a chain of events that neither of them could have foreseen.
What starts as a clash of cultures and belief soon deepens into an epic love.
MANUSCRIPT IN PROGRESS: 5%
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