THE BURY DOWN CHRONICLES
  • The Bury Down Chronicles
    • Story Locations
    • Historical Notes
    • Reference Sources
  • Book 1: Megge of Bury Down
    • Prologue
    • Characters
    • Reviews
  • Book 2: The Lady of the Cliffs
    • Characters
    • Reviews
  • Book 3: the Sisters of the Sorrows Cove
  • Literary Awards
  • Rowan Moon Press
    • About the Publisher
  • About the Author
    • Publications
  • For Booksellers and Librarians
  • Announcements
  • Contact
  • order your copy

Long ago, before this cusp of land was known as Cornwall,
there dwelt in a cave at the foot of a cliff
​on Kernow’s rugged coast
a healer.

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​"You know them, don’t you, Megge of Bury Down?" asks a voice that is silk over silk.
"​These cliffs of Kernow."

Megge's Story Continues
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 Now nearly seventeen, Megge and her cousin Brighida must endure another brutal loss. As they perform the rites of transition that precede a burial, a silken voice beckons Megge back to the cliffs of Kernow, which she has seen only in dreams.
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But when the tales of an old woman, a stranger to Bury Down, conjure those cliffs, Megge embarks on a journey that leads to a secluded cove they call The Sorrows 
and a destiny none of the women of Bury Down could have foreseen. 


"THE LADY OF THE CLIFFS IS AN INTRICATE AND LUSH ADDITION TO THE HISTORICAL FANTASY GENRE
​BY ONE OF THE LITERARY MAESTROS OF OUR TIME."
                                                                                                                                       ~ CHANTICLEER BOOK REVIEWS


Winner of the 2023 CIBA Chaucer Award for Dark Age, Medieval, and Renaissance Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Chanticleer International Book Award for Best Supernatural Paranormal Fiction



​Enjoyed by fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley
Mary Stewart
Jack Whyte
TH Whyte
​NK Jemisin
Geraldine Brooks
​and Katherine Arden
​


Audiobook narrated by the incomparable
British Voice Artist,
Jan Cramer

Purchase audiobook on audible.com

"Wonders and horrors lodge cheek by jowl in Kightlinger's merciless and incandescent imagination as Megge, not yet seventeen, understands that we are, indeed, all eternal companions."

~Boman Desai, author of TRIO: A Novel Biography of the Schumanns and Brahms   

"THE LADY OF THE CLIFFS IS AN INTRICATE AND LUSH ADDITION TO THE HISTORICAL FANTASY GENRE
​BY ONE OF THE LITERARY MAESTROS OF OUR TIME."
                                                                  ~ CHANTICLEER BOOK REVIEWS


"Megge is a protagonist easy to fall in love with, to root for, to worry about, and when dark forces enter her world, Kightlinger’s storytelling abilities shine."
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        ~ David Anthony Durham, author of Pride of Carthage and the Acacia ​trilogy
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mEGGE OF BURY dOWN
FIRST PLACE awards 

​2021 Independent Book Publishers
benjamin franklin award for best fiction audiobook

2021 Chanticleer International book Award FOR
Supernatural Paranormal fiction



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The Lady of the Cliffs
​FIRST PLACE awards
2023 Chaucer Award for Dark Age, Medieval, and Renaissance Fiction
2022 CIBA Award for SUPERNATURAL PAranormal Fiction

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ADDITIONAL  awards
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The INDEPENDENT BOOK PUBLISHERS
Bill Fisher Award
​for Best First book


​Megge of Bury Down

​SILVER

The independent Press
​New York City Big Book awards
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Megge of Bury Down
2020 DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE

​HISTORICAL FICTION
and
​COVER DESIGN

The Lady of the Cliffs

2021 DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE


HISTORICAL FICTION

  and
​COVER DESIGN

mom's choice  award 



Megge of Bury Down

​GOLD

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FOR EXCELLENCE IN FAMILY-FRIENDLY MEDIA, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES
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  • The Bury Down Chronicles
    • Story Locations
    • Historical Notes
    • Reference Sources
  • Book 1: Megge of Bury Down
    • Prologue
    • Characters
    • Reviews
  • Book 2: The Lady of the Cliffs
    • Characters
    • Reviews
  • Book 3: the Sisters of the Sorrows Cove
  • Literary Awards
  • Rowan Moon Press
    • About the Publisher
  • About the Author
    • Publications
  • For Booksellers and Librarians
  • Announcements
  • Contact
  • order your copy