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About The Book:  

The Kingdom is dying…

The Darkness is coming… the balance between Order and Chaos is rapidly shifting and the world is falling towards evil and horror, and all the misery that Chaos will bring.

But there is hope…

Pardigan’s had enough, he’s only 12, but he’s breaking into the home of one of Freya's richest merchants... and he’s doing it tonight…

A burglary that will change their lives forever sets four friends upon a quest, a race against time, to locate three magical objects and complete an ancient and desperate spell.

Sailing their boat The Griffin, the crew are quickly pursued by The Hawk, an evil bounty hunter and master of dark sorcery, and Belial, King of Demons and champion of Chaos who seeks to rule the world of man… yet first he must capture the crew of The Griffin and end their quest…

What I Thought:

 The Pardigan creeps along in the dark house, everything quiet except for the soft snores and a cats meow. Being there for one sole purpose he must finish his job as quickly as possible, that's not something to hard for Pardigan to do since he's done this many times in the past. He opens the closet, grabs the object, and with barely glancing at the contents he sneaks back out, with a soul noticing. 

When he finally gets back to his hideout he opens the bag and dumps everything out on the table. Finding everything he wanted plus some, he pulls a knife and a book from the many things.Setting the knife aside he tries to open the book, but has no luck reading it since it's all in a foreign language. But then something amazing happens the knife glows as he holds it near the book, making the words change to were he can understand it. But the book holds more than he could have ever imagined.

Bartholomew Bask awakens to a mess, his clothes not clean and set out and his food not sitting on the table in his massive room. He talks sternly to his hand maid before getting completely up for the day. Then something just doesn't seem right, he looks around the room. Everything seems to be in order but then he notices a small mess in front of the closet. He races over and snatches the doors open to find his bag gone with nothing left but a little bit of dirt. 

The money and jewels gone, is nothing compared to the book and knife missing. The book and knife holding something very powerful gone with out a trace could be dangerous. Especially in the wrong hands, he had to find the person who took it and fast, but how?

About The Author:(in the authors own word)

I was born in England and spent most of my youth growing up in the Essex countryside. It’s a beautiful part of England, up near the Suffolk border, but I was born with a heavy dose of 'travel lust' so as soon as I could get a passport and adventure the world, I packed a rucksack and went exploring!
It was a bit of a risk and my parents weren’t too taken with the idea, but I’m still traveling and have been lucky enough to live and travel in loads of countries all over the world. In fact, I’ve now lived for more years outside of England than I ever spent living there – It is, after all, a great big exciting world!
I’ve worked and trained as a carpenter, and then a house restorer… I’ve picked loads of different types of fruit - from grapes in France to avocados in Israel. I traveled with the Bedouin in the Sanai desert for several months and even did a stint as a stock broker in Hong Kong. I’ve called Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayan Mountains home, and then moved on and loved the clamor of central Hong Kong, it’s been a ride and a blast.
In my later years, I came back to Europe and restored an old farmhouse in deep rural Burgundy, dallied in Amsterdam for a number of years, and then came south in search of the sun again. I’ve always vowed to return and sink some roots back in English soil... but I haven’t got there yet, maybe someday, there are just so many interesting places out there. I do live a little closer to England now, just outside of Barcelona, Spain in the middle of the forest with my dogs and two wonderful children, it’s a great place to write.
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, my writing is mostly fantasy and many of my experiences in Asia, India, Africa and the Middle East come to life in my writing. I’ve seen and done some pretty strange things on my travels and bumped into some incredible characters, so writing fantasy is almost like writing fact for me… sort of. When I started writing Shadowland, I had the intention that there would be no fantasy in it at all, but then came the druids and then one of the main characters, Cal found he had a pretty strange affinity with wolves, so my historical fiction became historical fantasy… but it’s made it a very popular book!