Call of the Kings

Chris Page

Jun 2014 · Andrews UK Limited

About this ebook

The French and English kings are at war, the Viking invaders are still causing mayhem having integrated into the Wessex landscape, and local warlord’s battle to gain a foothold on the Celts territory in any way they can. Twilight, the now old veneficus of Wessex, finds his replacement in Tara, a curly red-haired little girl from Ireland with special powers. As he trains Tara in the enchantments amidst the conflict raging around them, they must also maintain the crucial venefical presence at Stonehenge and Avebury. But while the old veneficus and his young novice attempt to deal with weak monarchs, a flesh-eating sorceress and three deviate and particularly evil Francian venefici, the Duke of Normandy invades England at the Battle of Hastings...

About the author

Chris Page lives in Wiltshire and is married with two children. He is a historian and storyteller with a great enthusiasm for English Dark Ages history. Chris has been working on the Venefical Progressions series for ten years and seeks to entwine some of the great Wessex legends and sites with a fast-paced narrative of magical fantasy and savagery.