The Summer Queen
The Bloodsong Series Book I
Strange things are happening in Muriel Grayson’s safe plodding routine of eat-sleep-work-repeat. Not just strange. Unusual. Transforming. She’s hearing the clarion call of adventure.
Leaving her job and old name behind, she revisits a dream of becoming an archaeologist, by applying to attend a summer dig in coastal Yorkshire. Led by the British poster boy for archaeology, Jack Shepherd, the dig is trying to locate a bronze age burial site. The newly named Samantha Grayson arrives on site and is immediately at odds with Jack Shepherd over the dig location.
Through studying local folklore, myth and legend, Samantha’s adventure becomes a personal odyssey, an obsession to find the burial site on her own. Along the way she makes new friends and finds allies in her quest. She uncovers her courage, her self-belief and undergoes emotional shifts and spiritual experiences that are so profound and closely entwined, she no longer sees any separation between them.
And on one, truly magical afternoon, amongst the sand dunes, the truth is revealed.
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The Moon Queen
The Bloodsong Series Book II
Moving to York should have been her happily ever after. Instead, Samantha Grayson finds both her marriage and sanity being jeopardised by the past.
The Bronze Age woman she discovered last year, somehow communicates with her. Named Moira by her husband, archaeologist Jack Shepherd, this woman even claims to be her ancestor. Is it madness or is it magic? Moira is like a splinter in her mind, constantly itching.
On the final leg of her honeymoon, Samantha visits Les Combarelles cave system. In the darkness she finds more than mysterious, compelling art. Moira is there, inviting her to step into adventure. From within the depths of the mountain Samantha is thrust into Moira’s world.
Her journey from the mundane to the sacred will change her on every level and alter her ideas about the nature of reality.
And it will also cause a rift between herself and Jack that seems irrevocable.
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All The Queen’s Children
The Bloodsong Series Book III
Samantha Shepherd is once again setting out on a quest: to prove that she lived her Bronze Age ancestor’s life, which would also validate her theories about her ancestor’s origins. And she is leaving her husband, Jack Shepherd, behind. Literally.
With very little to go on, other than instinct and Moira’s oblique references, Samantha looks for the Star Circle, an ancient stone temple, and the living descendants of Moira’s son, Niall Torren. Following a trail that has been cold for thousands of years, she once again finds help as she travels to the Netherlands, a magical Yorkshire farm, Norway and a small village in the Cotswolds.
Back home, archaeologist Jack Shepherd has his own problems to deal with. The past has come back to haunt him in a very tangible way, kickstarting him on a journey through his own personal history; some of it hundreds of years old, some of it more recent. He needs to talk to Samantha and keeps asking himself the same three questions – will she come home? Will she support his new business?
And most important of all, will she accept his son?
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