The Year of Ancient Ghosts

Summary

Award-winning author Kim Wilkins compiles five novellas (three reprinted, two original) in this strong collection.   The Year of Ancient Ghosts features five novellas of the fantastic, all centred around medieval myth and history.    A mother and her daughter come to the remote Orkneys to grieve and find themselves instead dealing with a ghostly Viking legend.    A Dark Ages king doesn’t realise his wife carries another man’s child, and she is desperate for him not to find out. A young woman, who has spent her whole life hiding her supernatural strength, discovers on the eve of her wedding that she is Odin’s daughter.    Sir Percival’s sister finds herself trapped in a castle of bloodletting sorcerers with only her sexuality as a weapon. In the wake of the Norman conquest, the daughter of an abusive man falls in love with a Norman priest whose abilities blur the line between religion and magic.

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