Welcome to Blackthorne Faire!
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Welcome to Blackthorne Faire, a place of wild music and unbridled, boisterous dance! Of theatre and pageantry! Of turkey legs and drinking bouts! Of deadly duels and rapier-fast quips! Of whispered rumors of unexplained disappearances. Of mystery, intrigue, and murder.
Beware, mortal, oh, beware the sounds that echo over the hills, across the bluffs, and through the winding pathways, for no one can hear the horns of Elfland and remain unchanged.
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In Blackthorne Faire, a romantic and sensual
contemporary fantasy adventure, Brian Johnson, a lawyer
fighting depression, meets his true love, Erin Winter, at
an Atlanta Renaissance Festival. He is there on business to
contact the mysterious owners of the fair as a part of a
real estate deal.
Meanwhile, Jessica Holtzman, a young actress playing the
fair’s fortuneteller, finds never-before-seen Tarot cards
in her deck, and learns that the fortunes she tells come
true. When a man is found murdered, Brian discovers that
his client has mob connections.
Erin finds a forgotten tune in an old volume called The
Hidden Book of Secret Knowledge, a tune that holds the key
to lost magic. In the shadow of growing mystery, Brian
courts his ladylove, only to lose her to the Perilous
Realm. For at Blackthorne Faire, a war is brewing between
the mob and the courts of Faery. With the help of his
friends, Brian manages to rescue Erin, but then he himself
is lost in the seductive perilous realm. Now, Erin must
attempt a rescue of her own. At Blackthorne Faire, nothing
is what it seems. Not even love.
Blackthorne Faire blends elements of Celtic myth
and faery lore with all the costumes, theatre, drinking,
music, romance, and boisterous fun of a contemporary
Renaissance Festival. You'll find young love, lost tunes, a
mysterious Tarot deck that doesn't behave as it should, the
courts of Faery, lawyers, and even a few mobsters. This
book is (very loosely) connected my other novel,
The Widening
Gyre.
