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Taliesin

Book 1 of The Pendragon Cycle series

It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis.

Taliesinis the remarkable adventure of Charis, the Atlantean princess who escaped the terrible devastation of her homeland, and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. It is the story of an incomparable love that joined two worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawned the miracles of Merlin...and Arthur the king.

Genre
historical fictionmedievalfantasymythologymyths and folklore
Themes
arthurianchristianreligion
Setting
medievalengland
Subject
history
Audience
adultyoung adult
Length
long · 496 pages

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