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Ravens Hill
(The Atheling Chronicles, #5)
By Garth Pettersen
(The Atheling Chronicles, #5)
By Garth Pettersen
Publication Date: 15th April 2025
Publisher: Tirgearr Publishing
Page Length: 308 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Tirgearr Publishing
Page Length: 308 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
In 1030 C.E. — When Harald, the second son of King Cnute, returns from fighting the king's enemies in Northern Wales, he expects his life to return to normal. He's surprised when he's granted a large landholding—an idyllic life, far from the power-mongering of King Cnute's court, farming in the Midlands, evening walks with his beloved Selia. It’s a gift they cannot refuse, but the king has other plans for Harald and his wife.
On arriving at their new holding, Ravens Hill, Harald and Selia receive a tepid welcome from tenants—belligerent housecarls; a conniving steward; an uncompromising abbess, bitter at not adding their estate to her abbey lands; a priest with roaming hands; and a grieving daughter of the previous landholder who has entered the nunnery.
Harald and Selia wish to improve the lot of their tenant farmers, but they face obstacles at every turn, and Harald’s generosity is seen as weakness.
Trouble brews when they learn the lands come with an unexpected millstone—an unsolved murder.
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Garth Pettersen
Garth Pettersen is a Canadian writer and historian who lives with his wife on a farm in the beautiful Fraser Valley near Vancouver, British Columbia. When he is not writing, he is looking after horses and mending fences. He has a bachelor's degree in History and a background in Education (History, English, Theatre). Garth Pettersen's short stories have appeared in several anthologies and in journals such as Blank Spaces, The Spadina Literary Review, and The Opening Line Literary 'Zine. His award-winning historical fiction series The Atheling Chronicles is set in Anglo-Saxon/Danish England early in the eleventh century and features the largely unknown figure of Harald Harefoot, second son of the “Viking” King Canute. Reviewers have praised the author for his extensive research on the era.
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Your cover is so beautiful. I love the reflection in the axe.
ReplyDeleteDoes this book standalone, or will I need to start with book 1?
I would buy this book just from the cover without even reading the blurb!
ReplyDeleteI have book one on my kindle. I must get around to reading it.
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