Shadow on the Stones

Introduction

IntroductionThis is a story set in Bronze Age Britain, c.1500 BC, when the great circles of standing stones that were such a feature of the Neolithic Age, were already more than a thousand years old, yet still in use as sacred temples. Hundreds of stone circles have been found throughout Britain, the most famous today being Avebury and Stonehenge in Wiltshire. That such a homogeneous culture flourished in communities so widely separated by dense and dangerous forests, mountains, and wild and stormy seas, is extraordinary.

In this story, the Temple of the Sun at Avebury faces a dangerous threat from outside the tight-knit community. Kyra and her fellow priests have to use every power they have to combat his fell armies. Karne devises his own ingenious methods which, as author, I have based on material in ancient legends and on a study of the giant landscape images of the Nazca in Peru.