ASIN: B00BNVLQZ8
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 231
Fantasy winner UK Authors Opening Pages Competition 2008Highly atmospheric, and we were caught up all the way through. The concrete details are beautifully inserted in the story, vivid and convincing. “My enchantments are only the magic of the earth itself and the things that grow. I heal not harm. I repeat ”" you have no need to fear me.” “You won't turn me into a frog, will you?” I had never believed that particular story anyway. “I prefer you the way you are,” he replied with a smile. Manannan McLir escapes his enemies and finds sanctuary, for a little while, on the Isle of Man. Both feared and urgently needed, he uses his skills and the strange knowledge from the East to cure wounds and sickness. Among his patients is Renny, a young Celtic girl who falls in love with him and is witness to a terrifying experience one night. As he tells her later,“My visions are the only true magic I ...
