Echoes of the past resonate across the
centuries as Dr Anna Petersen, a medievalist and runologist, is struggling with
past trauma and allowing herself to trust again. When archaeologist (and Anna's
old adversary) Professor Matt Beacham unearths a 6th century seax
with a mysterious runic inscription, and reluctantly approaches Anna for help,
a chain of events brings the past firmly back into her present. And why does
the burial site also contain two sets of bones, one 6th century and
the other modern?
As the past and present intermingle
alarmingly, Anna and Matt need to work together to solve the mystery of the
seax runes and the seemingly impossible burial, and to discover the truth about
the past. Tensions rise and sparks fly between Anna and Matt. But how is 6th
century Lady Mildryth of Mercia connected to Anna? Can they both be the Daughter of Mercia?
For fans of Barbara Erskine, Elena
Collins, Pamela Hartshorne, Susanna Kearsley and Christina Courtenay.
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Julia Ibbotson is fascinated by the medieval world and the concept of time. She is the author of historical mysteries with a frisson of romance. Her books are evocative of time and place, well-researched and uplifting page-turners. Her current series focuses on early medieval time-slip/dual-time mysteries.
Julia read English at Keele University, England, specialising in medieval language / literature / history, and has a PhD in socio-linguistics. After a turbulent time in Ghana, West Africa, she became a school teacher, then a university academic and researcher. Her break as an author came soon after she joined the RNA’s New Writers’ Scheme in 2015, with a three-book deal from Lume Books for a trilogy (Drumbeats) set in Ghana in the 1960s.
She has published five other books, including A Shape on the Air, an Anglo-Saxon timeslip mystery, and its two sequels The Dragon Tree and The Rune Stone. Her latest novel is the first of a new series of Anglo-Saxon dual-time mysteries, Daughter of Mercia, where echoes of the past resonate across the centuries.
Her books will appeal to fans of Barbara Erskine, Pamela Hartshorne, Susanna Kearsley, and Christina Courtenay. Her readers say: ‘Julia’s books captured my imagination’, ‘beautiful story-telling’, ‘evocative and well-paced storylines’, ‘brilliant and fascinating’ and ‘I just couldn’t put it down’.
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