Nevermore - A Novel of Love, Loss & Edgar Allan Poe

David Niall Wilson

Crossroad Press

About this ebook

 Nevermore is a dark, historical fantasy filled with romance, southern charm, and all the trappings of a classic historical romance.  Walking the line between the occult, the paranormal, and the reality of 1800s life in The Great Dismal Swamp, Nevermore is also chock full of action and adventure. Follow Edgar Allan Poe and Lenore into The Great Dismal Swamp and experience one version of the birth of Poe's famous poem, "The Raven." 

On the banks of Lake Drummond, on the edge of The Great Dismal Swamp, there is a tree in the shape of a woman.

One dark, moonlit night, two artists met at The Lake Drummond Hotel, built directly on the borderline of North Carolina and Virginia. One was a young woman with the ability to see spirits trapped in trees and stone, anchored to the earth beyond their years. Her gift was to draw them, and then to set them free. The other was a dark man, haunted by dreams and visions that brought him stories of sadness and pain, and trapped in a life between the powers he sensed all around him, and a mundane existence attended by failure. They were Eleanore MacReady, Lenore, to her friends, and a young poet named Edgar Allan Poe, who traveled with a crow that was his secret, and almost constant companion, a bird named Grimm for the talented brothers of fairy-tale fame.

Their meeting drew them together in vision, and legend, and pitted their strange powers and quick minds against the depths of the Dismal Swamp itself, ancient legends, and time.

Once, upon a shoreline dreary, there was a tree. This is her story.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This novel is a direct spin-off from "Kali's Tale," the fourth book in the DeChance Chronicles - initially it was going to be the prologue to book V - but is now a fully separated, stand-alone work - though the stories tie together, and are all one big story - as novels, over time, tend to become. Book One, "Heart of a Dragon," is only .99 and books 2-4 are now available in a single omnibus edition.  If you enjoy Nevermore, you may find The DeChance Chronicles to your liking.  Book V - "A Midnight Dreary," will be available in 2015 and draws directly on elements of Nevermore.

Ratings and reviews

Nevermore is hauntingly engrossing. Long after finishing this book I find myself wondering about the folk I 'met' in reading it. It has been some time since a story pulled me in as this one did. I find I must now reread Poe himself, preferably by lamplight in the tavern by the great dismal swamp at the table by the window beside a roaring fire under a full moon with a pint of dark ale. Of course I shall read more or David Niall Wilson as well.

It is never a disappointment reading one of Edgars books. This was an outstanding book and had me interested with each and everword written , simply amazing. I love it.