![]() ![]() Believing Breaca to have been killed, Ban swears vengeance on Caradoc's tribe, then focuses on staying alive in an alien land where even to admit to being a Celtic Dreamer is to invite instant death. Having saved Caradoc, the future war-leader of his people, who has been shipwrecked on the Eceni shore, Breaca and her family travel to his father's court, where they are betrayed, and Ban is sold into slavery in Gaul. Beside her is Ban, her half-brother, who longs to be a warrior, though he is manifestly a Dreamer, possibly the finest in his tribe's history. ![]() She longs to be a Dreamer, a mystical leader who can foretell the future, but having killed the man who has attacked and killed her mother, she has proved herself a warrior. It is 33AD, and Breaca, the red-haired daughter of one of the high-born leaders of the Eceni tribe is on the cusp between girl and womanhood. ![]() It is also the story of the two men she loved most: Caradoc, outstanding warrior and inspirational leader and her half-brother Ban, Roman captive, slave auxiliary and Dreamer - the Druid whose eventual return to the Celts is Boudica's salvation. Boudica: the last defender of the Celtic culture the only woman openly to have led her warriors into battle the only British warrior to have stood successfully against the might of Imperial Rome - and triumphed. ![]()
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The bloody past he wants to forget may be the key to her future… or the downfall of them both.īut Tisaanah will stop at nothing to save those she abandoned. Even more dangerous are her growing feelings for Maxantarius. The Orders’ intentions are cryptic, and Tisaanah must prove herself under the threat of looming war. But to join their ranks, she must complete an apprenticeship with Maxantarius Farlione, a handsome and reclusive fire wielder who despises the Orders. But the night she tries to buy her freedom, she barely escapes with her life.ĭesperate to save the best friend she left behind, Tisaanah journeys to the Orders, the most powerful organization of magic Wielders in the world. 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