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THE LAND BEFORE SNOW

IF TIME STANDS STILL ANYWHERE, IT’S AT BEDE. IF GHOSTS HAUNT ANYWHERE, IT’S IN BEDE HALL. But ghosts are nothing compared to the challenges haunting a curmudgeonly building with a desire for eternal life. BEDE HALL WAS ALIVE BUT EVEN IN BEDE, IMMORTALITY WON’T LAST FOREVER! History comes and goes. Empires rise and fall, civilizations flourish and cultures collide. The laws of probability…

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THE POWER OF SNOW

There are three generations of Stratford-Smyths ‘living’ in Bede Hall. THE FOURTH IS THE GHOST OF A NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL, WHICH MAKES THEM FOUR GENERATIONS SPANNING FOUR DIMENSIONS. Bede Hall is old. The word ageless barely covers it, and the word timeless is an outright lie. Older than time is closest to the truth. But even then, strictly speaking, the Hall is older than history. The Hall hovers…

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A FORECAST OF SNOW

Prologue for book one of the Bede Series THE DISTANCE FROM BEDE TO LONDON IS 300 MILES NORTH AS THE CROW FLIES AND 30,000 YEARS AS TIME FLIES. Sarah Goodman’s kitchen in the village of Bede radiated with spectral light that emanated from a small square hole in the back door – a rotating cat flap called ‘The Royal Opening of the Way’ that permitted entry for time traveling cats from the temple…

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FRESHLY FALLEN SNOW

PAGE ONE OF ‘SNOW BEHIND THE DOOR’ My new name is Snow – a name that suits me even though there are days I wish it didn’t. I died a very long time ago or was it yesterday? …I think maybe both. Apart from a few self-possessed phantoms, I live alone in a house of shadows. My father said they were memories of the past and foreshadows of things that might have been. But that was in the ‘high…

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LISTENING TO SNOW

My Bede series was meant to be a trilogy but Snow, the young ghostly presence who floated silently along Bede Hall’s time portals to reunite her lost family, lost herself along the way. Bede Hall fresh from victory hadn’t noticed Snow slip away to her old sanctuary, the cold spot at the top of the stairs where she barricaded herself behind the Winter Door to sleep herself a reality she could…

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VIOLET SEABORN'S UNFINISHED SOUL

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ANCESTRAL WATERS RUN DEEP Violet Seaborn’s Unfinished Soul is a mythical fantasy about an extraordinary young girl who perishes in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 who must travel back to the prehistoric goddess culture of her ancestors to restore the mystical powers of the water spirit Epona, a horse named after the Celtic goddess protector of horses, ponies, and donkeys. Epona drowned as one…

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A ‘DOGGED STAR’ IS BORN 

‘DOGGED STAR’ – When the teenage Leonardo Da Vinci experiences a spontaneous emotional outburst while painting his first masterpiece, he unwittingly initiates a long-term long-distance love affair that defies physics. An extraordinary romance spanning five-centuries transpires inspired by the dogged nature of canine loyalty, the fine art of unwavering reincarnation, and blind faith written beyond…

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READ BEDE! … IF…

READ BEDE! … IF…

Anubis on Hadrian’s Wall IF the title ‘PERPETUAL CHILD’ resonates to a natural affinity for magical realism within you. It helps to be middle aged to read the Bede Series in the true spirit it was written… namely in the guise of a middle-grade time-slip adventure to please an author (me) refusing to age. I write mystical fiction for adults because I believe that too much maturity can be…

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GOLDILOCKS UNPLUGGED

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NOW YOU ARE TWELVE!

NOW YOU ARE TWELVE!

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NOW YOU ARE TWELVE! NOW YOU ARE TWELVE!

NOW YOU ARE TWELVE! NOW YOU ARE TWELVE!

Tis the season for wintry tales of snow and wishing on Christmas stars. In 1924, A.A. Milne (author of the ‘Winnie the Pooh’ books) wrote ‘When We Were Very Young’ for his four-year-old son, Christopher Robin. In 1927 he wrote ‘Now We Are Six’. Piglet and Pooh discover worrisome heffalump footprints in the snow It’s a little presumptuous and far too ‘on the nose’ to dedicate my ‘Bede Series’…

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JUPITER & THE GHOST OF MONA LISA     

JUPITER & THE GHOST OF MONA LISA     

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JUPITER & THE GHOST OF MONA LISA     

JUPITER & THE GHOST OF MONA LISA     

MONA LISA HAS A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY AND SHE’S NOT AFRAID TO USE IT! Is the ‘Mona Lisa’ beguiling or smiling, alluring or obscuring, devious or mischievous? In my fictional account of her life in ‘The LISABETTA TRILOGY’, she is most decidedly, all six. BUT JUST BETWEEN THE TWO OF US:THE ‘MONA LISA’ IS NOT POSSESSED… SHE’S ARTFUL! There are always a few characters inside my head vying for…

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THREE TIMES A LADY

THREE TIMES A LADY

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THREE TIMES A LADY

THREE TIMES A LADY

With the completion of ‘LISABETTA – a stolen sister’, ‘the LISABETTA trilogy’ is now part of my literary history. The fanciful biography of Lisabetta’s hidden, forgotten, and overlooked life unfolds when the embittered spirit of Leonardo da Vinci’s kid sister steps outside her portrait to redress a five-hundred-year-old case of mistaken identity. And it soon becomes apparent that although the…

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THE COLOR OF SANITY

THE COLOR OF SANITY

‘THE INDIGO PEARL’ – an autistic girl with extrasensory abilities who converses with paintings and birds, strives to find the family she senses in dreams and her true place in the world. AI = AUTISTIC INTELLIGENCE… ‘STATE OF THE ART’ TIME TRAVEL JUST BECAME TRANSCENDENTAL https://www.amazon.com/Indigo-Pearl-V-Knox-ebook/dp/B0195OA4QQ/

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THE COLOR OF SANITY

THE COLOR OF SANITY

‘THE INDIGO PEARL’ An autistic girl with extrasensory abilities who converses with paintings and birds, strives to find the family she senses in dreams and her true place in the world.Veronica Knox A snippet from ‘THE INDIGO PEARL’ [ My old robin friend flew into the mouth of the cave, and I followed, through the hall of the birds and past the paintings of horses on the walls. I expected to…