GAELEN
by
Book Cover & Preview Text
She sat bareheaded in the misty rain, astride a black stallion. Next to her tall horse sat a sandy-haired deerhound. Gaelen, who had once been called Princess Audrey, had ridden to the top of one of a number of mound-like hills. Down and in front of them stretched a broad moor upon which two opposing armies were forming for battle. Water dripped from her golden shoulder-length hair onto the back of her knee-length orange and gray tartan tunic. A buckler was strapped to her left arm, a sword belted to her waist, her bare legs crimson in the unusually keen summer air. Gaelen, stallion and war-dog were intently watching. To her left, north in the trees along the edge of what was to become the battlefield, was one of the armies. Led by her best friend, composed of a collection of native tribes, its intent was to defeat the Kingdom’s army and depose Rolf, the King. In front, slightly south of east, was the army of the Kingdom, led by King Rolf himself. Shrouded in mist, he was preparing an overpowering force to crush the remains of the native revolt. That done he would return to his fortress where he thought Gaelen was imprisoned. Once there he would try her as one of the leaders in the revolt and then, with the court in attendance, suspend her upside down and drown her in a bucket.
Formats
Book Details
About the Book
G A E L E N: princess - rebel - warrior
There was a time of which little is known, a strange time, a dark time. A time when savagery enveloped all of Europe. Gaelen was born during that time to a northern pagan native queen and a southern Christian king. Born into the ignorance of the darkest era of the Dark Ages, she matured in a world constantly at war, to become a rebel warrior princess when only the strongest, most ruthless men ruled for long. Still not much more than a child she was to try to carve out her kingdom in an era of kings and chiefs, fiefdoms and tribalism. She was to try to take and hold when numerous warring tribes, with swords in hand, waged close merciless battles throughout the realm.
Some reader comments: "It's such a great story, and has such great characters!"
"Even though this isn't the genre I generally read, I enjoyed the story . . .and had a hard time putting it down."
"Let me know as soon as the sequel comes out."
About the Author
Robert McLaws Miller is an author of a number of unknown and inconsequential technical publications. “Gaelen” was written in response to a 1200 year old cerebral implant in his family’s DNA. Five years ago in that soundless time just before light in troubled sleep she stirred him, riding her stallion forth from the final days of the Picts. Denied her place in history by the chauvinism of the past she pleaded that her story be told. Not to be denied, Robert tries the best he can. First a tale, then belief.