Druids, Fair Folk, sorcerers, these magical pagans have lived since time
immemorial in the unconquered lands of tenth-century Ireland, but the sacred
isles have fallen to the Britons. At the fortress of Sevenwaters, an alliance
of families plans the campaign to win them back.Recalling the lost Celtic past to life, this rich, magical story of loyalty
and love is a new Mists of Avalon for readers of historical fantasy. Raised in
an isolated cove on the beautiful Kerry coast, Fainne's childhood is a lonely
one. But her beloved father, the exiled son of Sevenwaters, teaches her all he
knows of the magical arts, and every summer she looks forward to the arrival of
her one friend, the gypsy boy, Darragh. Soon, though, her world will be changed
for ever when her grandmother, the renowned and feared sorceress Oonagh, enters
her life. Oonagh tells Fainne that she carries the blood of a cursed line of
sorcerers and outcasts, and then she burdens her with a terrible task. She
sends her to the fortress of Sevenwaters, to the family Fainne has never known,
to use whatever powers she can to thwart a prophecy that is near fulfilment.
The Fair Folk in alliance with Sevenwaters will win back the sacred isles
unless Fainne kills the child the prophecy talks of. Tormented by evil dreams,
Fainne knows she has the power to do this...Child of the Prophecy is a powerful
and haunting conclusion to the Sevenwaters trilogy.
