USA Publications
Advice for Readers
- The titles of some of the american versions are occasionally different from those of our British publishers
- The covers for the books of the twilight series (books seven, eight and nine of the american list) will be added when the details become available from the us publishers.
- The prose descriptions and blurbs for the twilight books can be taken from the British versions of these same books.
Merlin Books
Book 1 – The Merlin Prophecy: Battle of Kings
This book covers Merlin’s unnatural birth, the attempt by the High King, Vortigern, to sacrifice him and the boy’s decision to become a healer. In battles of increasing bloodiness, Merlin learns what it is to save life rather than take it. As a healer, he learns the real meaning of power as he attempts to discover the secrets of his birth.
Book 2 – The Merlin Prophecy: Death of an Empire
Death of an Empire charts the slow decay of Roman control over Europe. As travelling healers, Myrddion and his friends are caught up in Attila the Hun’s invasion of Europe at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plain. Meets extraordinary men and earns their enmity before escaping to Rome. But even here he is not safe and flees to Constantinople, the centre of the civilized world and the place where his rapist father rules supreme. The meeting is not auspicious.
Book 3 – The Merlin Prophecy: Hunting With Gods
Despairing after meeting with his father and the loss of his first true love, Arthur returns to Britain. He immediately comes to the attention of Uther Pendragon, the violent, talented and unpredictable war leader who wishes to use Merlin’s significant skills in his wars against the Saxons. When Merlin refuses, Uther coerces the young man into obedience. From one bloody encounter to another, Merlin learns the madness of his patron. He is saved for a time by Ambrosius, the High King of the Britons who uses Merlin to train healers and set up a spy network, but the untimely death of Ambrosius from poisoning places Merlin back into Uther’s callous hands. And Uther lusts after Ygerne, the Pearl of Cornwall and wife of King Gorlois, the Iron Duke. Worse still, Merlin must disregard his scruples to give Uther what he lusts after or many others will die. What is the young healer to do? How can good come out of wickedness?
King Arthur Books
Book 1 – King Arthur: Dragon’s Child
Detailing Arthur’s rise from a 12 year old orphan to becoming a fearless Celtic war chief against the Saxon invaders
Book 2 – King Arthur: Warrior of the West
Arthur, now High King of Celtic Britain is married to Guinevere and chronicles his war against the Saxons whilst his kingdom is threatened from within.
Book 3 – King Arthur: The Bloody Cup
The aging King Arthur faces threats and dissent within his court and throughout the land allowing the slow destruction and decline of all that had been built before
Twilight Books
Book 1 – The Last Dragon
The legend of King Arthur lives on in this epic and dramatic trilogy, The Twilight of the Celts, from the magnificent story teller, M.K. Hume. Sure to appeal to all fans of Games of Thrones.
Book 2 – The Storm Lord
The legend of King Arthur lives on in this epic and dramatic trilogy, The Twilight of the Celts, from the magnificent story teller, M.K. Hume. Sure to appeal to all fans of Games of Thrones.
Book 3 – The Ice King
The legend of King Arthur lives on in this epic and dramatic trilogy, The Twilight of the Celts, from the magnificent story teller, M.K. Hume. Sure to appeal to all fans of Games of Thrones.