Welcome back to Fantasy Friday with a treat – a double review!

A young man’s shadowed destiny leads him to the past…and could change our world forever.

On Halloween eve, a frightening encounter with mysterious creatures transports twenty-year old Thomas McCadden to an unknown and ancient world—7^th century Britain. How did he get there? What does he do now? The answers to these questions change his life forever, revealing secrets that have long been hidden, and a truth that he would rather not know. As he tries to survive this long-ago time, Thomas encounters the unknown and the otherworldly; an exiled warrior, holy men, tribal kings, and something far more sinister shadowing them all.

Is he a tool for the dark forces of this land? Or the liberator sent to save them all? His strange journey forces these and even more important questions: Can he make it back home? Does he even want to return?

Wilding is the first book of The Traveller’s Path, a meticulously researched historical fantasy series set in Northumbria, AD 642. It introduces a long-ago world, and a young man whose choices could have disastrous ramifications for it—and ours.

Why I love these books: This historical fantasy tale is set in Saxon England when a Canadian young man from our time is sent back and begins to discover his true heritage and destiny as a Wilding, someone with human and fey blood in his ancestry but who is not trained in the use of his fey powers and so considered a danger. Wilding is the beginning of a wonderful trilogy that just keeps getting better. True historical characters make appearances alongside those from Celtic mythology. Bound is the sequel (5 stars!) and Choice is forthcoming (hopefully fall 2022). I had the honor to be a beta reader for Choice and it is just wow! (5+ stars!). L. A. Smith grows as a tale-spinner just as the hero grows into his role. Bravo!

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Have you read these books? What did you think?