The Druid and the Bracelet

It’s an earlier age in Western Scotland and Celtic villagers scratch life from the fields, ruled by gods and bedevilled by faeries. However, their pastoral calm will not last.

A dead king returns with a warning of doom.
Men collect young maidens for sacrifice to a new god.
A witch-girl, given an ancient jet bracelet, disappears in a flash of lightning.

Could it be, as the Arch-Druid says, that evil is leaking into the land?
A young Druid and his warrior brother set out on an impossible quest to find their dead sister. Trapped in a king’s grave, they meet an alluring young woman and together they discover the malevolent being stirring in the depths of a black loch. The disappearance of their sister is only the beginning...

Helped by a friendly ogre, the faeries, dragons led by a strangely mature eight-year-old girl, and the mysterious jet bracelet, the two brothers and the young woman battle an ancient god and its decaying-but-not-dead servant. The Feeble Wight looms; she will bring death to the young Druid unless he finds his sister in just eight days...

With action, humour, and authentic detail, this exciting story of terror, love, and self-discovery in the face of evil brings the ancient Celts vividly to life.

The Druid and the Bracelet – fantasy grows up.

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Chris was born in 1946, in the bombed-out, grimy, and exhausted north England town of Bradford in Yorkshire. His father was an engineer, and his mother, surprisingly for the time and place, had a deep love of literature. Chris grew up with talk of the latest works by D. H. Lawrence and Dylan Thomas buzzing around the small house.
Chris was always a storyteller. Even at a young age, he amused his friends with imagined tales of the mouse Sandeman and comrades. Later, in grammar school, his skill for amusing writing was commented upon, although not always appreciated by the teaching staff.

Chris studied electronic engineering in London, meeting and marrying Valerie in 1969. He worked for several years in Hampshire, then when he was thirty-one, the couple left to live in California, where Chris enjoyed a successful career as an electronic engineer.

The writer imprisoned in the engineer broke free upon his retirement in 2012, and Chris turned to writing fantasy novels.

Chris still lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, enjoying mountain biking, piloting small airplanes, and, most of all, writing. He and Val have two adult daughters.