Wave Hunter
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- Beth Webb (Écrivain)
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It is the end of the Iron Age and the Romans are sweeping across Britain, destroying and subduing all who stand against them. Tegen is the Star Dancer, a young druid girl with exceptional powers, born to turn aside an unknown evil.
However, the druid elders were looking for a warrior prince rather than a girl. Tegen battled with a cave demon to earn their trust and respect. Afterwards, she left her home on the Mendip hills to fulfill her destiny on Mona, the island of the Druids.
On the way she met Owein, a young ovate travelling in the opposite direction. He had a past he was trying to hide, and an uncle, Admidios, who was hell-bent on vengeance and power. Against her will, Tegen became entangled in Admidios’s dark plots that began with the murder of Owein’s foster father and ended with betrayal and the destruction of the stronghold at Sinodun.
Tegen has learned one important thing from Admidios: that she has the power to summon fire, and in those flames to divine the future.
As Sinodun burned, Tegen fled, once more determined to reach Mona. She had with her Epona – a white mare, Wolf – her dog, and Kieran – a boy she helped to rescue from slavery.
But Tegen has not left everything behind.
She is being watched. The demon is still alive … And it’s following her.
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It is 59 AD. The Romans have subdued most of Britain, but the tribes of Cymru are proving troublesome. The new Governor, Suetonius Paulinus, believes an iron fist will finally quell all resistance, but he hasn’t reckoned on the growing magical powers of Tegen, the young ‘Star Dancer’.
Pursued by a demon wrapped in fog, Tegen is making her way to Mona, the sacred Isle of the Druids, guided by the irritable and unreliable Kieran. She longs to leave him, but he is her only hope if she is to weave the Great Spell that will defend their homeland.
Together with Enid, another druid, the three seek wisdom on the peak of Cadair Idris, the source of poetry, prophecy – and madness. From that moment, the demon’s hatred is whipped into a frenzy of fury.
The sea, the goddess of smithing, and an Irish Queen intervene. Tegen finds love and the Isle of Mona, but Suetonius’s troops have also arrived, bringing death, hatred and an old friend.
From despair, hope seems to be glinting on the horizon, but an ancient ritual breaks a loaf of bread – and Tegen’s heart.
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