From award-winning historical novelist D. K. Marley comes a sweeping, time-bending epic perfect for fans of OUTLANDER and THE MISTS OF AVALON -where love, legend, and destiny collide across centuries.
Wales, 1914.
On the eve of war, Vala Penrys and her four sisters retreat into stories-romantic visions of Camelot whispered beneath the shelter of a rowan tree, where myth feels safer than the world beyond. But when war fractures their quiet existence, those stories begin to stir with dangerous truth.
Vala's life changes the night she meets Taliesin Wren, an enigmatic Welsh lieutenant whose presence feels older than time itself. Beneath the twisted roots of the rowan tree, he reveals a secret the Druids once guarded: a portal between worlds.
And then she falls.
Drawn into the depths of another age, Vala awakens as Vivyane-Lady of the Lake, the Kingfisher-standing at the heart of a fractured Britain on the brink of legend. Kingdoms rise and fall. Alliances shatter. And Excalibur waits for the hand destined to wield it.
What began as a dream becomes a battle for the soul of a nation, across two worlds bound by fate. Torn between the man she loves and the destiny that calls her, Vala must choose: save her family...or shape the future of Britain itself.
Because the past is not gone.
The future is not written.
And the power of Excalibur lies in her hands.
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"It is, at the heart of it, a love story between a man and a woman, a woman and her country, and the quiet, unyielding bond between fate and those brave enough to meet it. Yet it reaches far beyond romance, unfolding as a tale of power, sacrifice, and the cost of destiny."- Riana Everly, author of Teaching Eliza and Death of a Clergyman
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