An ancient horror is resurrected.

A teenage Roma Shuvani and her twin brother battle an ancient menace, travelling across time and space from Medieval England, across war-torn France, the land of Dracula and into ancient India under threat from Genghis Khan to find the answer to the horror that has descended onto rural England. It all starts when a Professor of Archaeology’s car breaks down and while it is being repaired he goes for a stroll in a nearby meadow, stumbles, falls and finds an old coin. It ends with climactic battles between the Roma (gypsies) and their foes, between the Shuvani and the ancient menace that she has to defeat to rescue her brother, who had sacrificed himself to save her. In between there are ghosts, mayhem, dukkering, odd characters, chuckles and chills. Enter the gypsy world of superstition, magic, old feuds and Tarot. She must also overcome resistance from her parents to follow her passion, rejection by her religion but encouraged by a grandmother whose particular talent allows her to see the future. When it is all over, lives are altered forever.

Drawn from life, research and imagination, it started with the remark about my great-grandfather, Philip Boswell, “He was an Irish Tinker and Horse Trader.” Accelerated when finding my DNA stretched from England to Transylvania. The author lives with his wife, Ruth, and dog, Jewel, in California. Contact Info: Danetre.Ted@gmail.com Available at Amazon.com as a paperback and Kindle version