Blood Ties (Castings Trilogy Bk 1)

The Casting Trilogy is set in a pre-industrial society in a North European-style landscape. The main characters are Bramble, an independent and endearing young woman, and Ash a most surprising leading man.

Bramble, a village girl whose grandfather is a Traveller, witnesses a warlord s man wound a wolf in the woods. She tracks down the animal and puts it out of its misery. The man finds out and confronts her, and in self-defence Bramble kills him and steals his horse. Worried that the warlord will discover her crime and threaten her family, she takes to the Road.

Ash is a young man, also a Traveller, who has recently left the Road which he travelled with his musician parents. They have found him an apprenticeship with a safe guarder house in Turvite, the largest town in the region. Safe guarders are part security guards, part mercenaries. Ash s story begins when he kills a young woman one night a thief who is trying to kill him. The murder throws his life into turmoil and he decides he needs to find another career or set out on the Road once more.

And so the story of Bramble and Ash begins

About the Author

BLOOD TIES, released in 2007, was Pamela Freeman's first novel for adults. It was followed a year later by the second book in The Castings Trilogy, DEEP WATER. FULL CIRCLE, the final in the trilogy, was published in 2009. Pamela is also an award-winning writer for young people, and is best known for the children's fantasies VICTOR'S QUEST and VICTOR'S CHALLENGE, and for THE BLACK DRESS, an inspired biography of Mary MacKillop's early years, which won the New South Wales Premier's History Award in 2006. She has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney, where she has also lectured in creative writing. She lives in Sydney with her husband and their son.

Previous Books:
Blood Ties (2007), Deep Water (2008), Full Circle (2009).

Other titles by Pamela Freeman

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