Book description
Have you ever had the feeling that you've lived another life? Been
somewhere that has felt totally familiar, even though you've never been
there before, or felt that you know someone well, even though you are
meeting them for the first time? It happens. In 2073 on the remote and
secretive island of Blessed, where rumour has it that no one ages and no
children are born, a visiting journalist, Eric Seven, and a young local
woman known as Merle are ritually slain. Their deaths echo a moment ten
centuries before, when, in the dark of the moon, a king was slain,
tragically torn from his queen. Their souls search to be reunited, and
as mother and son, artist and child, forbidden lovers, victims of a
vampire they come close to finding what they've lost. In a novel
comprising seven parts, each influenced by a moon - the flower moon, the
harvest moon, the hunter's moon, the blood moon - this is the story of
Eric and Merle whose souls have been searching for each other since
their untimely parting. Marcus Sedgwick is a full time author and the
Writer in Residence at Bath University.
