May 1st is upon us, the time everything is greening up in the Northern Hemisphere, even in the mile-hi city. As the Sufi poet and mystic Rumi put it, “The green ones have come from the other world, tipsy like the breeze up to some new foolishness.”
On this day, the fae ride out on the Wild Hunt. It is a day of fertility, celebrated by dancing around the May Pole, men and women weaving colorful ribbons as they move sun-wise and widdershins around the pole. The May Queen is crowned and in the old days, people made love in the fields to ensure good crops and fertility among themselves and animals.
I celebrated this holiday in Beneath the Hallowed Hill by imagining a Wild Hunt that started ages ago, a faery lost in time returning at last to the flower maiden, Blodeuwedd. Michael also returns to Anne and in their union, an old promise is quickened—a child and the return of the king.
What’s the news? I’m working on the second in the Mystic Assassin series. I’d planned to take her to Russia, but remember the man who was head on one of the right-wing militias who was an FBI informant? That and Stephen gave me wild ideas. Rainey gets pulled away from her usual missions to investigate domestic terrorist groups. But she might end up in Russia after all.
Next comes the fifth in the Power Places series. This one will be set in Cambodia at Angkor Wat. A mine-sniffing rat discovers a lost artifact deep in the jungle unleashing a force everyone thought was just legend. Cambodia still has mine left over from the war decades past. They use specially trained rats with an amazing sense of smell to find them. Check out this site to read more about them. This guy below won a Gold Medal for his work.
My Shopify store is on pause, but you can still get my books anywhere else—eBook sites, bookstores, and libraries.
Into the City of Light is now out in audiobook form, narrated by J. Bruce McRell, the same man who read Into the Hallowed Hill. Click the image to purchase.
And ~ drumroll please ~ new covers are coming for the first three books of the Power Places series. FrinaArts Design did such a breath-taking job on Assassin Awakens that I asked her to do one for Into the City of Light. Wow! I’ll be trotting out some new covers very soon. You’ll be the first to see them.
In Light,
Theresa