Cast your eyes to the summit, child,
to Bury Down, once a hillfort of rock and timber,
now but a low stone crown set crooked upon a great green head.
Can you see the last of the setting sun, blood-red upon that granite ring?
Your aunts will have made ready.
Tell me, Megge, are you very brave?
to Bury Down, once a hillfort of rock and timber,
now but a low stone crown set crooked upon a great green head.
Can you see the last of the setting sun, blood-red upon that granite ring?
Your aunts will have made ready.
Tell me, Megge, are you very brave?
Megge's story begins
Cornwall, 1275 CE
On a sheep farm in the shadow of Bury Down grove, known for a thousand years as the Land of the Second Sight, a healer vows to face flames rather than fail in her one charge in this life: to bring her daughter to accept a powerful ancient book and vow to become her apprentice and follow the path of protector.
But when Megge touches The Book of Seasons, it burns her fingers and she hears a whisper. “Murderer.” Terrified, she rejects the book and renounces her birthright.
How far will Megge’s mother and aunt, the Healer and Seer of Bury Down, assisted by two great-aunts ~ Aleydis, a huntress; and Morwen, a bard and Megge’s dearest confidante ~ go to bring young Megge to accept her destiny?
And to what lengths will Megge go to elude it?
On a sheep farm in the shadow of Bury Down grove, known for a thousand years as the Land of the Second Sight, a healer vows to face flames rather than fail in her one charge in this life: to bring her daughter to accept a powerful ancient book and vow to become her apprentice and follow the path of protector.
But when Megge touches The Book of Seasons, it burns her fingers and she hears a whisper. “Murderer.” Terrified, she rejects the book and renounces her birthright.
How far will Megge’s mother and aunt, the Healer and Seer of Bury Down, assisted by two great-aunts ~ Aleydis, a huntress; and Morwen, a bard and Megge’s dearest confidante ~ go to bring young Megge to accept her destiny?
And to what lengths will Megge go to elude it?
"If you like slow-build classic fantasy, this is for you."
Suanne Schafer, Reviewer