The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven: Book 1
Publication Date: August 5, 2022
In this dark fairy tale adaptation of a medieval French legend, Issylte must flee the wicked queen, finding shelter with a fairy witch who teaches her the verdant magic of the forest. Fate leads her to the otherworldly realm of the Lady of the Lake and the Elves of Avalon, where she must choose between her life as a healer or fight to save her ravaged kingdom.
Tristan of Lyonesse is a Knight of the Round Table who must overcome the horrors of his past and defend his king or lose everything. When he becomes a warrior of the Tribe of Dana, a gift of Druidic magic might hold the key he seeks.
Haunted and hunted. Entwined by fate. Can their passion and power prevail?
When Issylte’s father remarries, life changes for the young girl known as the Emerald Princess. Her new stepmother revels in wielding power as the Queen of Ireland, eventually hatching a plot to kill Issylte.
Author Jennifer Ivy Walker delivers a medieval historical romance loosely described as a dark fairytale retelling of Arthurian legends in The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven.
The young princess seeks shelter with a forest witch who detects untapped magical powers inside the girl. Issylte matures under the witch’s tutelage and is eventually sent to Avalon for protection. The author uses a dual storyline to introduce Tristan, a sworn knight of Camelot.
With Tristan, Lancelot, and an army, the Emerald Princess prepares to take on the Black Widow Queen, who has left a trail of destruction in her path.
The story ends on a bit of a cliffhanger before the final outcome is determined, but it was a solid ending for this installment.
With plenty of fantasy elements woven into the story, The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven features several key medieval people and places, including Avalon and the Lady of the Lake. It provides an interesting journey into the legends of the past.
Enthralled with legends of medieval knights and ladies, dark fairy tales and fantasies about Druids, wizards and magic, Jennifer Ivy Walker always dreamed of becoming a writer. She fell in love with French in junior high school, continuing her study of the language throughout college, eventually becoming a high school teacher and college professor of French.
As a high school teacher, she took her students every year to the annual French competition, where they performed a play she had written, “Yseult la Belle et Tristan la Bête”–an imaginative blend of the medieval French legend of “Tristan et Yseult” and the fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast”, enhanced with fantasy elements of a Celtic fairy and a wicked witch.
Her debut novel, “The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven“—the first of a trilogy—is a blend of her love for medieval legends, the romantic French language, and paranormal fantasy. It is a retelling of the medieval French romance of “Tristan et Yseult“, interwoven with Arthurian myth, dark fairy tales from the enchanted Forest of Brocéliande, and otherworldly elements such as Avalonian Elves, Druids, forest fairies and magic.
Explore her realm of Medieval French Fantasy. She hopes her novels will enchant you.
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