Author Juli D. Revezzo has a new book called
Druid Warrior Prince. It's full of Celtic mythology, which I groove on, so I think it looks interesting and I'm guessing you will too. She tells us all about her book in this guest post. Check out the post and then check out
Druid Warrior Prince! -- RE
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Druid Warrior Prince is the third in my urban/historical
fantasy series, Celtic Stewards Chronicles. If you haven’t been introduced to it
yet, the series is about a family who owns a patch of land on which the Irish
gods of the Tuatha dé Danann, their druids,
and a special squad of elite warriors fight an ancient, magical battle against
mythic evil for the fate of the world, every 500 years.
In the first book,
Passion’s Sacred Dance, the heroine (Stacy) receives an old diary from the last
overseer, who takes the overseer’s title of “Steward”. While Stacy lives in
modern-day Florida, the previous steward oversaw the battle in 1513 on the
family’s original homestead in Ireland.(The whole story of which is told in
book 2, Druid Warrior’s Heart). That
information only furthered Stacy’s curiosity about the family, so after her own
battle in 2013, she’s gone digging for more
information on how her family has dealt with this war, seeking clues to,
perhaps, end it, once and for all.
The third volume, lately released, entitled Druid Warrior Prince continues the story, from the point of view of
Gwenevieve, the steward who lived 1500 years ago, revealing to Stacy a little-known
episode in the family history, taking place is 6th Century Ireland.
The progression down through Stacy’s history, to Gwen’s is why I can’t say the
series is purely historical fantasy;
it is, but it’s not, due to the modern setting of Passion’s Sacred Dance. Why
did I decide to that? Because I’m mad? No. :)
If I am, there’s a method to the madness. For me, the
combination of myth, fantasy, and history is something that has intrigued me
for a long time, especially Celtic mythology. I have been studying up on it
ever since I first found the King Arthur tales. A decade or so ago I fell into
Irish mythology, and have barely resurfaced since. That’s where the world and war
of the Celtic Stewards Chronicles came from. There’s a tale in the myths that
says the evil god Balor one day did the unthinkable and refused hospitality to
a druid of the Tuatha dé Danann. Well, the withholding of said hospitality was
a major slight, in the eyes of the Celts, and so this druid did what you’d
expect. He told tales of this king’s snub to his kin, and they decided to go to
war with the king over it. (As I said, major slight!) That story, got me
thinking, what if the war didn’t just end at the end of the tale we have
written down? What if the uppity king kept poking at his enemies, by way of
threatening humanity, or otherwise causing trouble so the Tuatha dé Danann
would have no choice but to defend people from the king’s potential destructive
wrath?
That thought gave rise to a war fought every 500
years under the watchful eye of one family, as ancient Celtic wars were fought
with a druid on hand to oversee it all, and from there to my three books (so
far) in the Celtic Stewards Chronicles,
the third of which, Druid Warrior Prince, just released.
The official synopsis is as follows:
Gwenevieve Macken’s well-ordered world falls into
chaos as encroaching interlopers scheme to possess both her and her land.
Although she’s been trained to spot the signs of inhuman evil in men, the
amassing armies take on guises she never expected.
When a foreign guardian presents himself as her
only option for salvation, Gwenevieve must make a choice between her desires,
and fulfilling the mythic fate to which she was born. A forced marriage to a
Tuatha dé Danann warrior isn't part of her plan.
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Should you like to check it out, it’s available at Amazon,
in ebook and paperback.
I hope you will enjoy them. And before I go, I’d like to say
thank you to Roger for allowing me to come here and tell you about the series.
Juli D. Revezzo loves fantasy and Celtic mythology and
writing stories with all kinds of fantastical elements. She is the author of
the historical romances, House of Dark
Envy, Watchmaker's Heart, and Lady of the Tarot, the Antique Magic paranormal mystery series
and Celtic Stewards Chronicles series
and more. She is also a member of the Independent Author Network and the Magic
Appreciation Tour.
