Pagan Heart: The First Book of the Nagardin

by Gus Campbell

Overview

Dalradia, distant archipelago of the northern isles, as wild and fractured as the clans that dwell upon her foreboding shores, as brooding as the anger that stirs deep within her forests. Threatened by the Issorian Empire, an ancient and resurgent enemy, her fate is in the balance.

Mordred, dissident heir to the kingdom, imprisoned and disinherited, knows the time has come to rebel against the brutal rule of his father and fight for his homeland.

Pagan Heart chronicles the first steps of an odyssey that will set Mordred against his own kin and clan, against the unquiet custodians of Dalradia’s long forgotten past, and towards the gradual realisation of an ancient power that shrouds the savage majesty of his homeland. A power that seeks to reignite the fearsome bloodlust of his ancestors. It is a course that will ultimately set him on the path to become the most feared conqueror the Issorian Empire has ever known.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780995675438
Publisher:	Cuith Raing Publishing
Publication date:	10/03/2017
Series:	Book of the Nagardin , #1
Edition description:	The Samhainn ed.
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.13(d)

About the Author

Originally a musician, this is my first novel in the series 'The Book of the Nagardin.' The journey to publication has been an odyssey in itself, for having been fortunate enough to have travelled, climbed and mountaineered in many parts of the world, I've also succeeded in exhausting my quota of lives at an alarming rate. The last accident did manage to kill me, albeit briefly, so it's a privilege to still be here.

Pagan Heart is the result of the years spent navigating the impact of trauma and learning how to work with the effects of a brain injury. Thankfully, I was still able to write, and can only hope you'll enjoy the results enough to become part of the journey.

I live with my long-suffering wife and a final straggler from a gaggle of three beautiful daughters, and Mya, faithful hound and constant companion. All have been part of an itinerant lifestyle, for we are yet to find a place to call home - but it's the dramatic peaks, hidden glens and tangled forests of the Scottish Highlands, alongside a childhood raised in Africa and the Orient, that inspire much of what I write.

Editorial Reviews

‘A Caledonian otherworld, seeped in pagan mists and timeless mystery, this novel has it all. Gus Campbell deftly interweaves epic grandeur with a chilling sense of foreboding.

A stunning debut.’

Jeremy Neal, author of Orcus

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