Weaving Historical Fiction into Ancient Celtic Tales of Love, Magic and Adventure
Weaving Historical Fiction into Ancient Celtic Tales of Love, Magic and Adventure
Weaving Historical Fiction into Ancient Celtic Tales of Love, Magic and Adventure
The Curse of Clansmen and Kings is Historical Fiction weaving Celtic tales of love, magic, adventure, intrigue, and betrayal in Ancient Rome and Britannia. The book is inspired by Arthurian Legends and the legacy of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, but with a Celtic twist.
Book 1: APOLLO’S RAVEN
A Celtic warrior princess is torn between her forbidden love for the enemy and duty to her people.
AWARD-WINNING APOLLO’S RAVEN sweeps you into an epic Celtic tale of forbidden love, mythological adventure, and political intrigue in Ancient Rome and Britannia. In 24 AD British kings hand-picked by Rome to rule are fighting each other for power. King Amren’s former queen, a powerful Druid, has cast a curse that Blood Wolf and the Raven will rise and destroy him. The king’s daughter, Catrin, learns to her dismay that she is the Raven and her banished half-brother is Blood Wolf. Trained as a warrior, Catrin must find a way to break the curse, but she is torn between her forbidden love for her father’s enemy, Marcellus, and loyalty to her people. She must summon the magic of the Ancient Druids to alter the dark prophecy that threatens the fates of everyone in her kingdom.
Will Catrin overcome and eradicate the ancient curse. Will she be able to embrace her forbidden love for Marcellus? Will she cease the war between Blood Wolf and King Amren and save her kingdom?
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Book 2: DAGGER’S DESTINY
A Celtic warrior princess accused of treason for aiding her enemy Roman lover must win back her father’s love and trust.
In the rich and vibrant tale, Author Linnea Tanner continues the story of Catrin and Marcellus that began with the awarding-winning novel APOLLO’S RAVEN in the Curse of Clansmen and Kings Series. Book 2: DAGGER’S DESTINY sweeps you into an epic tale of forbidden love, mythological adventure, and political intrigue in Ancient Rome and Britannia.
War looms over 24 AD Britannia where rival tribal rulers fight each other for power and the Romans threaten to invade to settle their political differences. King Amren accuses his daughter, Catrin, of treason for aiding the Roman enemy and her lover, Marcellus. The ultimate punishment is death unless she can redeem herself. She must prove loyalty to her father by forsaking Marcellus and defending their kingdom—even to the death. Forged into a warrior, she must overcome tribulations and make the right decisions on her quest to break the curse that foretells her banished half-brother and the Roman Empire will destroy their kingdom.
Yet, when Catrin again reunites with Marcellus, she is torn between her love for him and her duty to King Amren. She must ultimately face her greatest challenger who could destroy her life, freedom, and humanity.
Will Catrin finally break the ancient prophecy that looms over her kingdom? Will she abandon her forbidden love for Marcellus to win back her father’s trust and love? Can King Amren balance his brutality to maintain power with the love he feels for his daughter?
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The audiobook sample is taken from Chapter 1 when King Amren accuses his daughter, Catrin, of treason for aiding her enemy Roman lover, Marcellus.
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Book 3: AMULET’S RAPTURE
Blood stains her Celtic home and kingdom.
The warrior Druid Princess will do anything to retake her throne.
Although Catrin is the rightful heir to the Celtic throne in Britannia, she is lucky to be alive. After witnessing the slaughter of her family at the hands of her half-brother, who was aided by the Romans, she is enslaved by a Roman commander. He disguises her as a boy in the Roman Legion with the belief that she is an oracle of Apollo and can foretell his future. The sole bright spot in her miserable new life is her forbidden lover Marcellus, the great-grandson of the famed Roman General Mark Antony.
But Marcellus has been wounded and his memories of Catrin and their secret marriage were erased by a dark Druidess. Though Marcellus reunites with Catrin in Gaul and becomes her ally as she struggles to survive the brutality of her Roman master, he questions the legitimacy of their marriage and hesitates to help her escape and retake her kingdom. If their forbidden love and alliance are discovered, her dreams of returning to her Celtic home with Marcellus will be shattered.
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Book 4: SKULL’S VENGEANCE
A Celtic warrior queen must do the impossible—defeat her sorcerer half brother and claim the throne. But to do so, she must learn how to strike vengeance from her father’s skull.
AS FORETOLD BY HER FATHER in a vision, Catrin has become a battle-hardened warrior after her trials in the Roman legion and gladiatorial games. She must return to Britannia and pull the cursed dagger out of the serpent’s stone to fulfill her destiny. Only then can she unleash the vengeance from the ancient druids to destroy her evil half-brother, the powerful sorcerer, King Marrock. Always two steps ahead and seemingly unstoppable, Marrock can summon destructive natural forces to crush any rival trying to stop him and has charged his deadliest assassin to bring back Catrin’s head.
To have the slightest chance of beating Marrock, Catrin must forge alliances with former enemies, but she needs someone she can trust. Her only option is to seek military aid from Marcellus—her secret Roman husband. They rekindle their burning passion, but he is playing a deadly game in the political firestorm of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to support Catrin’s cause.
Ultimately, in order to defeat Marrock, Catrin must align herself with a dark druidess and learn how to summon forces from skulls to exact vengeance. But can she and Marcellus outmaneuver political enemies from Rome and Britannia in their quest to vanquish Marrock?
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Book 5: DRAGON’S ANVIL
A Celtic warrior queen must meet her destiny that is etched on her father’s dagger and slay the dragon.
Barely escaping an ambush from Marrock’s deadliest assassin, Queen Catrin must fulfill her destiny to overthrow her evil half-brother, King Marrock. An evil sorcerer, he can shapeshift into a dragon and wreak havoc on the kingdoms of Britannia. Catrin’s devoted Roman husband, Marcellus, and her commanders gather in the quest to slay the dragon in the darker half of the year as winter approaches.
But other enemies from Rome and Britannia stand in her way. Family loyalties are tested. Warriors fall. Betrayed and torn from those she loves, Catrin must embrace her essence as a dark druidess to face her greatest challenge yet: battling the dragon and ruling the kingdom as its rightful heir.
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