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A thrilling and intoxicating journey to a land of legend, where nothing is quite as it seems. . . . Something evil has come to reside in a castle by the chill waters of the North Sea: men disappear and are found as horribly wizened corpses, knights ride out and return under an enchantment that dulls their minds. Both the townspeople and the court under Sir Odinell's protection live in fear, terrorized by forces beyond human understanding. But rumors of a wise woman blessed with mysterious powers also swirl about the land. The call goes forth, and so it comes to be that young apprentice Hob and his adopted family - exiled Irish queen Molly, her granddaughter Nemain, and warrior Jack Brown - are pitted against a malevolent nobleman and his beautiful, wicked wife.
About the Author
Douglas Nicholas is an award?-winning poet whose work has appeared in numerous publications, among them *Atlanta Review, Southern Poetry Review, Sonora Review, Circumference, A Different Drummer*, and *Cumberland Review*, as well as the *South Coast Poetry Journal*, where he won a prize in that publication's Fifth Annual Poetry Contest. His other awards include second place in the 2002 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards from PCCC, International Merit Award in Atlanta Review's Poetry 2002 competition, finalist in the 1996 Emily Dickinson Award in Poetry competition, honorable mention in the 1992 Scottish International Open Poetry Competition, first prize in the journal *Lake Effect*'s Sixth Annual Poetry Contest, first prize in poetry in the 1990 Roberts Writing Awards, and finalist in the Roberts short fiction division. He was also recipient of an award in the 1990 International Poetry Contest sponsored by the Arvon Foundation in Lancashire, England, and a Cecil B. Hackney Literary Award for poetry from Birmingham?-Southern College in 1989. He is the author of SOMETHING RED, a fantasy novel set in the thirteenth century, as well as IRON ROSE, a collection of poems inspired by and set in New York City; THE OLD LANGUAGE, reflections on the company of animals; IN THE LONG-COLD FORGES OF THE EARTH, a wide-ranging collection of poems; and THE RESCUE ARTIST, poems about his wife and their long marriage. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife Theresa and Yorkshire terrier Tristan.
