Seladiënna
Toward the end of the Emperor Hadrian's reign, one half of a Roman legion disappeared in the forests now occupied by the city of London. 1800 years later their descendants were rediscovered by a man and a woman, who were stranded for a brief time in a world not our own. There they found a sword. They took it and returned back home—followed by the emissaries of the spirits dominating the human denizens of that other realm. Some were charged with the destruction of the visitors; while another was sent to recruit them to save his world.
But how do you save a world, if first you need to destroy much of it; without at the same time losing your soul and maybe even your life?
Sam and Helen hadn’t been prepared for what awaited them when they agreed to be come world-saviors. They wouldn’t have agreed to it at all, for they had enough troubles of their own. But they were not the first who had discovered that world, and there was someone else there with whom
Sam had an old score to settle. And so they went…
NOTES:
Seladiënna is my first novel dealing with parallel worlds. It’s also the first novel I wrote after Keaen, and remains my longest so far. It was also my sexiest at the time and probably set the tone for much of what was to follow.
I had just read Sarah Douglass’s The Betrayal of Arthur, Linda Malcor’s From Scythia to Camelot and Dennis Anderson’s Arthur King, and I was in definite ‘King Arthur’ mode. Not that I quite knew what to do with it when I started, but I just had to write all that reading out of my system. So, I took the main themes, added my main theme—a serious love story that kind of inverted some Arthurian legend—and combined that with my first serious attempt at a parallel world tale. With my own twists and preoccupations and pet rants added in. The story almost wrote itself; like a lot of my other ones did and still do as well.This novel, as you may have guessed, contains love scenes with mildly explicit sexual elements.
The sword on the cover is a real object, handcrafted by a guy I trained with in my iaijutsu dojo.