Winterwode

by J Tullos Hennig

Overview

For Queen and country.

Robyn Hood and his band of outlaws seek to raise the magical trine of the Old Religion against the tyranny of Church and Crown. Yet their forest kingdom roils with conflict, much of it from within...

Marion has fled the Church to join her brother's band, but old shackles and new fears hamper her ability to take up her birthright as Maiden to the Wode...

The outlaws hold to an uneasy truce with Gamelyn, also known as the defrocked Templar Guy of Gisbourne, once Robyn's fiercest enemy and now lover...

A lone traveller is waylaid, and common occurrence quickly proves uncommon. Knight and Maiden, Archer and Men, all are conscripted to aid a Queen's-and ultimately a King's-ransom...

For England lies divided, and beneath winter's chill lies struggle: for crown, for country, and for the Shire Wode's deepest magics.Marion is instrumental in rescuing England's Queen Mother-but she must take up her own crown within the Shire Wode and prove her rights-not only to Robin Hood's outlaws, but herself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951293581
Publisher:	Forest Path Books
Publication date:	06/07/2022
Series:	The Books of the Wode , #3
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

J TULLOS HENNIG has always possessed inveterate fascination in the myths and histories of other worlds and times. Despite having maintained a few professions in this world-equestrian, dancer, teacher, artist-she has never successfully managed to not be a storyteller. Ever. Given a heritage of forest-dwelling peoples-Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Scots-Irish-the decision to make a home base in NW Washington State with the Amazing Spouse was a no-brainer. They live alongside a pair of equine freeloaders on retirement pensions, a wolfhound who alternates between leaping over the sofa and snoozing on it, and a press gang of invisible 'friends' Who Will Not Be Silenced. Active in conventions and genre literature in the 70s/80s/90s, Jeanine returned to the authorial fold in 2011 with the publication of an award-winning series of historical fantasy novels, and was awarded the Speculative Literature Foundation's juried Older Writers Grant. Her latest work, the award-winning Books of the Wode, is a truly innovative re-imagining of the Robin Hood legends, giving especial emphasis and reality to both pagan and queer perspectives. The finale of the series is due to release mid-2020. http: //www.jtulloshennig.net

Editorial Reviews

“A series re-imagining the Robin Hood story in a daring new way, steeped in historical romanticism with a hefty dose of fantasy and a magical sense of storytelling... Embodies the conflicts and changes going on around them – old versus new, pagan versus Christian, Briton versus Norman, duty versus desire – struggles rooted in history but couched in legend.” —HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY

“This book – indeed this series- is a marvel of writing. Every time I was forced to break from reading it I had to shake myself. My living room is a far cry from Robyn’s mystical Wode you see – and his Wode is exactly where I was transported to every moment I was reading.” —Dianne with IT’S ABOUT THE BOOK

"I’ve rarely found an author who can tackle something as ambitious as the Wode series and do it with such amazing skill of narrative and language and character. These are modern books, but Hennig pulls us into the Middle Ages, surrounds us with sights and sounds that bring the time alive. She tells a great story, weaving history tightly through it, and teaches us without seeming to. We don’t just enjoy a sweeping romantic tale, we learn about the world in which it takes place." —Ulysses with PRISM BOOK ALLIANCE

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