Enchanted Echoes 1-3 Now Available

Series

Series title: Enchanted Echoes

Author: Sorcha MacLeod

Imprint: Thistle and Rowan Press, Leon, Iowa

Genre: Historical fantasy / Celtic folklore / coming-of-age / generational saga

Setting: Scottish Highlands, early-to-mid 16th century

In the glens above Loch Shiel, the old ways have not quite died. They live in rowan at the threshold, in standing stones half-swallowed by ivy, and in the blood of those the land still calls. Enchanted Echoes follows the MacGregors who answer that call—Keepers of the Old Blood—through childhood vow, costly working, marriage, loss, and the quiet passing of the thread from one generation to the next. The magic is never flashy. It is communion, balance, and a price paid in the body. The Kirk is watching. The Campbells are waiting. The land remembers every oath.

Book One - Threads of the Old Blood Paperback and Ebook

On the black waters of Loch Shiel, a boy hears the land calling.

Ten-year-old Alaric MacGregor has always felt the pull—the second heartbeat beneath his own, the old stories that refuse to stay stories. When he follows that call into a hidden grove of standing stones, he finds Bran, last of the old druids, and a covenant that will mark him for life.

The Old Blood does not give freely. Every gift exacts a price. The Kirk is watching. The Campbells are waiting. And a Keeper must learn to protect his people from the shadows, or lose them to fire and steel.

Threads of the Old Blood begins Enchanted Echoes, a lyrical historical fantasy rooted in Highland folklore—where stone and water still remember, and some blood still answers.

Book Two - The Hollowing Years Paperback and Ebook

The rider brought three sentences and a world that would not stand up again.

Sixteen-year-old Alaric MacGregor’s father is dead, cut down in a Campbell raid. Grief opens a door the Fetch has been waiting behind. The Kirk’s suspicion thickens. The land answers more slowly than it did in boyhood. And the hollow ache in Alaric’s chest—the price of every working—grows deeper with each turning of the year.

From the coast comes Mhairi, sea-grey eyed, carrying selkie blood of her own. She will not ask him to abandon the grove. She will not let him break himself against it alone. Together they must learn what Bran could only teach in part: that a Keeper who only gives will hollow out, and that the thread survives only if it is passed on.

The Hollowing Years continues Enchanted Echoes—grief forged into purpose, sea woven with stone, and the long cost of keeping the old ways alive.

Book Three - Threads of Shadow and Rowan Paperback and Ebook

The boy who vowed himself to the loch is gone. What remains is a husband, a father, and a Keeper whose hollow has become a second bone.

The years settle on the glen the way peat-reek settles on a still morning. Alaric and Mhairi raise three children in the thin space between hearth and grove: Ewan with the spiral waking on his arm, Isla who hears the stones sing, and little Cait, born of sea and stone both. The Kirk grows sharper. The Campbells do not forget. The land still answers—but never as it did when Alaric was young, and never without asking what he is willing to spend.

Some prices they refuse, and live with the silence that follows. Some they pay, because the clachan will not stand without them. The children grow. Marriages are made in the old way. Grandchildren sleep in the crook of an arm that once held a yew staff too heavy for a boy.

And then the last work of a Keeper is not another working. It is the handing-on. Stone to the grove. Sea to the tide. The thread does not end. It only changes hands.

Threads of Ash and Blood closes the first movement of Enchanted Echoes—a farewell written the way the Highlands keep their dead: privately, and without letting go.