Galatine’s Curse
T.J. Green
(Tom’s Arthurian Legacy, #3)
Publication date: March 20th 2018
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
An ancient sword. A dark secret. A new enemy.
In the third book in the series, Tom has established a new life in the Otherworld, a life he loves. He lives with Arthur in New Camelot, and Arthur is hosting a tournament. Eager to test his sword-fighting skills, Tom’s competing. But while the games are being played, his friends are attacked and everything he loves is threatened. Tom has to find the intruder before anyone else gets hurt.
Tom’s sword, Galatine, seems to be the focus of these attacks. Their investigations uncover Galatine’s dark history and a terrible betrayal that a family has kept secret for generations. But this secret now puts others at risk, including Tom, and he realises that he could lose everything unless he can solve the mystery of his sword’s past.
Galatine’s Curse is the third book in the YA Arthurian fantasy series, Tom’s Arthurian Legacy. If you enjoy magic and mystery, a strong group of characters and Arthurian fantasy, then you’ll love this action-filled adventure.
Buy Galatine’s Curse for your thrilling new fantasy adventure today!
There’s always been a lot of magic in the King Arthur stories. That’s what I love about them. While they are grounded in the reality of this world, with tales of knights, valour, battles, jealousy and treachery, they also straddle the Other with the magic of Merlin, Morgan Le Fay, Avalon and the Lady of the Lake. They are the perfect blend of history and magic, and the mystical other we can’t quite grasp or see, but we know is there. The reality of people and place keep it grounded enough to believe in.
Arthur’s birth is forged in magic and trickery when Uther Pendragon is made to look like the Lady Igraine’s husband by Merlin. Dragons foretell England’s battles and Arthur’s place in them. Merlin moulds Arthur into a king, and obtains the sword Excalibur for him. It’s a magical sword, forged by faeries on the Isle of Avalon and delivered by the Lady of the Lake, her ghostly hand rising from the lake depths. It confers strength, leadership and protects Arthur from blood loss. Merlin, his mentor, is a powerful wizard, and Morgan Le Fay is a powerful witch.
Once he is king, Arthur is the leader we all want. He is wise, patient, strong, and fearless. The many stories tell of strange knights, damsels, beasts, the Grail, dragons and battles. They embody bravery and adventure. But even Arthur is not immune from betrayal by his best friend Lancelot, Guinevere his wife, and Morgan his sister.
Magic surrounds his death, for he is said to be the Once and Future King, destined to return in England’s most desperate hour. On his death, Excalibur was returned to the Lady of the Lake by Sir Percival, and Arthur’s body was carried to the Isle of Avalon, to rest there until he is needed, a potent symbol of a great leader. Consequently endless books have retold his stories, and endless people have looked for his real life origins and the places he called home, and yet we have never really found him. But it doesn’t stop us from believing.
My stories spring from the Other, from imagining what happened if Arthur returned to the faerie realm, and what if some of the original characters with magic were also in the Other. To me it makes perfect sense. Arthur’s world was full of magic and strange beasts, why shouldn’t it continue to be. But of course he needs someone to wake him, someone with a connection, and that’s where Tom comes in.
If love Arthurian legend, you should check out my series.
Author Bio:
T J Green was born in England, but moved to New Zealand 10 years ago. She currently lives near Wellington with her partner and her cats Sacha and Leia. When not writing she does lots of reading, gardening and yoga.
In a previous life she's been a singer in a band, and has done some acting with a theatre company - both of which were lots of fun. On occasions she and a few friends make short films, which begs the question, where are the book trailers? Thinking on it ...
Tom's Inheritance is TJ Green's first book in the series Tom’s Arthurian Legacy, the sequel Twice Born was released in February 2017. Galatine’s Curse, book 3, will be released in March 2018. She is also working on a few short stories which further expand the world of Tom in the Other.
Her new project is an urban fantasy series about witches.
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