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Wolgast Castle, Book One of the Sidonia The Sorceress Series by Linda Bell Brighton
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I’d live in the Greek Heroic Age, specifically the
generation of the Argonauts. I’d arrange to be the Recorder of Deeds on Jason’s
quest for the Golden Fleece. Long before the stupid Trojan War, Jason and a
bunch of others sailed to retrieve something from under the ever-watching gaze
of a dragon. Isn’t that the definition of Hero?
What would I say to the son of the King? “Hey, your
uncle is very power-hungry, and he wishes to rule Thessaly.” Maybe not while I
was on the boat. The uncle was spawned by the sea god Poseidon. Would I be able
to do anything to save the King’s life and all his children?
I can only imagine sitting on the boat next to the
already famous Hercules who had completed the twelve tasks given him by his
archenemy Eurystheus. Yet what a sad man Hercules would have been with the
goddess Hera driving him so mad that he slew his own children.
Perhaps I would see a happy Acastus after he helped
slay the Calydonian Boar, one of the monsters of Greek mythology. Once the
journey was over, Acastus wasn’t ever happy again. Hercules’ sorceress wife
Medea bespelled his sisters to kill their father, the king of Iolcus. Acastus
cut him into tiny pieces and boiled them. In his deepest grief after he buried
his father, Acastus drove off with Jason and Medea and his sister and created
funeral games in honor of his father. More was to befall the now-king.
And to have seen the Boreads do their thing! Being
sons of the north wind, Calaïs and Zetes were each supernaturally gifted, but
in different ways. They were able to fly as fast as the wind, one having wings
on his feet, the other his back. To watch the aerial battle with the harpies,
those ugly winged bird-women, but with lively hair! They could have killed the
food-snatchers. But Iris, goddess of the rainbow, requested them to let the
bird-omen live. Yes, let them live so these agents of punishment could abduct
evil people and torture them on their way to Tartarus, the dungeon of torment
and suffering for the wicked.
And those are only three of the fifty or more heroes
who traveled with Jason. What a cruise that would have been!
Forced to attend Princess Maria
regent's celebration at Wolgast Castle, 1560 Germany, Sidonia von Bork, fears
her magical abilities will be discovered and she'll be burned alive as a witch.
When she discovers she is actually a member of an ancient shape-shifting race
and the prophesied Golden One, she must face her destiny: to save the
multiverse from the daemons determined to destroy all humans, and stay alive in
the process.
Linda Bell Brighton’s Bio:
Linda Bell Brighton fell in love with myths, magic, and monsters at an early age. On a thunder-storming day in the Keys, her father—in his bass reading voice—brought The Hound of the Baskerville to too-vivid-life. From that day forward, Greek and Roman myths merged with Wonder Woman and Super girl. After studying medieval and Renaissance literature in college, she now combines her loves by writing an alternate history of the Witch Burning Times that she calls magpunk: real history with myths, magic, monsters—and daemons, too.
Links
Linda Bell Brighton’s website- http://www.lindabellbrighton.com/
Linda Bell Brighton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LindaBellWriter
Linda Bell Brighton’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lindabell.brighton
Wolgast Castle, Book One of the Sidonia The Sorceress Series Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/WolgastCastle
Giveaway Info
Linda is giving away prizes, including an e-copy of her book
at each blog stop on her tour AND three Grand Prize Giveaway of one Travel Mug,
one T-Shirt and one Custom Jumbo Tote Bag with your choice of fan art, chosen from here: http://www.zazzle.com/sidonia_the_sorceres , shipped to anywhere
in the world!
1)
To win a book:
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contact you if you’re the lucky winner. This giveaway ends seven days after the
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choice, click the link to go to Linda’s
website here http://www.lindabellbrighton.com/ and enter the Rafflecopter at the bottom of the page.
The three lucky winners will be selected by October 7, 2013.
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