The Dark Thorn
by Shawn Speakman
2011
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Beneath the streets of Seattle, a long-forgotten war is about to be renewed...
Richard McAllister, a spiritually destitute homeless man and Knight of the Yn Saith, protects one of seven portals linking his world to that of Annwn, where the fey Tuatha de Dannan of antiquity have been relegated by a long-running religious war.
Unknown to Richard though, powerful forces are aligning against him and all he stands to keep safe. In the wilds of a discarded world, Philip Plantagenet, son of Henry II, moves to claim a birthright nine centuries in the making, one that drives him to eliminate the Tuatha de Dannan--at any cost to both worlds.
Haunted by a past he can't forget and a knightly responsibility he can't shun, Richard is drawn into levels of machinations--and a world--far darker than any he has ever encountered.
Richard McAllister, a spiritually destitute homeless man and Knight of the Yn Saith, protects one of seven portals linking his world to that of Annwn, where the fey Tuatha de Dannan of antiquity have been relegated by a long-running religious war.
Unknown to Richard though, powerful forces are aligning against him and all he stands to keep safe. In the wilds of a discarded world, Philip Plantagenet, son of Henry II, moves to claim a birthright nine centuries in the making, one that drives him to eliminate the Tuatha de Dannan--at any cost to both worlds.
Haunted by a past he can't forget and a knightly responsibility he can't shun, Richard is drawn into levels of machinations--and a world--far darker than any he has ever encountered.
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