Everything.
A BREEZE HAD picked up, and was curling round the mountain as though on an errand. He was cold. His clothes were worn and thin and the stones were eating into his back. Dawn was bleeding into the eastern sky, blooming over the jagged darkness of the Cuillin Mountains. He shivered, wrapping his arms around his chest.
What in hell?
The glen loomed below him in the gathering brightness. Already there were a few lights on in the windows of the houses. He stood unsteadily, wondering why his clothes felt so odd on him. He was hungry, and his hands were racked with pain.
He sat down once more. There was something at the fringe of his mind, like a picture barely viewed. He felt terrible. But alive—strangely alive. He felt he could laugh at the high peaks and hear his voice bounce back at him exuberantly.
Can’t sit up here all day.
He stood up again. He was quite a way from the bothy, but the sky was clearing and it looked like being a fine day, clear as water. He smiled to the emptiness, the surrounding mountains, the blue sky and the far-off wash of the sea on the shore of Skye.
Then he started off for home hurriedly, because he had a story to write.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Kearney was born in Northern Ireland. He studied Old Norse, Middle English and Anglo Saxon at Oxford University, and subsequently lived for several years in both Denmark and the United States. He lives in County Down, in a croft with a boat by the door.
Michael Fay is a normal boy, living with his grandparents on their family farm in rural Ireland. In the woods—once thought safe and well-explored—there are wolves; and other, stranger things. He keeps them from his family, even his Aunt Rose, his closest friend, until the day he finds himself in the Other Place. There are wild people, and terrible monsters, and a girl called Cat.
When the wolves follow him from the Other Place to his family’s doorstep, Michael must choose between locking the doors and looking away—or following Cat on an adventure that may take an entire lifetime in the Other Place. He will become a man, and a warrior, and confront the Devil himself: the terrible Dark Horseman...
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This omnibus eBook contains the first two novels in the Monarchies of God series - Hawkwood's Voyage and The Heretic Kings.
THE WESTERN WORLD IS BURNING...
For Richard Hawkwood and his crew, a desperate venture to carry refugees to the uncharted land across the Great Western Ocean offers the only chance of escape from the Inceptines' pyres.
In the East, Lofantyr, Abeleyn and Mark - three of the five Ramusian Kings - have defied the cruel pontiff's purge and must fight to hold their thrones through excommunication, intrigue and civil war.
In the quiet monastery city of Charibon, two humble monks make a discovery that will change the whole world.
Aekir, the Holy City, has fallen and all now seems lost, but even on the eve of destruction the Faithful still war amongst themselves...
Hawkwood and the Kings collects Hawkwood's Voyage and The Heretic Kings, the first two books in Paul Kearney's spectacular The Monarchies of God cycle.
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THE TIME OF THE WOLF IS AT HAND...
Struck down in his moment of victory, Hebrion's young King Abeleyn lies in a coma, his city in ruins and his fiancee and former lover vying for the throne. Corfe Cear-Inaf, now a colonel, is given a ragtag command of ill-equipped savages and sent on a hopeless mission by a jealous King who expects him to fail.
Richard Hawkwood and Lord Murad return bearing news of horror on a savage new continent, with something terrible lurking in the hold.
The Church is tearing itself apart, even as the champions of truth fight to bring peace between Ramusian and Merduk; but in the far West, a terrible new threat is rearing its head...
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Also by Paul Kearney
The Way to Babylon
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Dedication
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About the Author
'A Different Kingdom' by Paul Kearney
'Hawkwood and the Kings' by Paul Kearney
'Century of the Soldier' by Paul Kearney