Enchanted Echoes: Threads of the Old Blood
The long awaited debut of the Enchanted Echoes series has happened! Book One - Threads of the Old Blood is now live on Amazon as paperback and ebook.
The mist clings to Loch Shiel like a widow’s shroud. Ten-year-old Alaric MacGregor sits at the water’s edge with his bare feet in the peat-dark shallows and feels something older than the kirk stones pulling at his ribs. His grandmother’s tales of selkies, kelpies, and keepers of the old blood no longer sound like stories told to frighten bairns. They sound like a question the land is asking him to answer.
Drawn into an ancient oakwood, Alaric finds a hidden grove and an old man named Bran—world-weary, sharp-eyed, and the last teacher the old ways can still spare. What follows is not a tale of easy power. The Old Blood is communion with the living land: asked for, listened to, and paid for. A spiral scar binds Alaric to that covenant. A hollow ache opens in his chest with every working. The men of the clachan need the barley to live. The priest needs a pagan remnant to name. The Campbells need only a weakness.
As boyhood hardens into the first weight of a Keeper’s road, Alaric must learn Bran’s hardest lesson: the old ways survive in shadow. Protect the folk. Pay the price. Do not step into the light where the Kirk can see.
Lyrical, grounded, and steeped in the weather and work of a Highland clachan, Threads of the Old Blood is the opening of Enchanted Echoes—a series about what it costs to keep a living tradition alive when the world has decided it should be forgotten.
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