The Girl With Golden Eyes: The Fire Tree Series - Book 2 - Softcover

Kirk, Mr Ken Peter

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798901489628

Verlag: Staten House, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

In 1622 Scotland, ten-year-old Logan Grant's life transforms when Wild Flower – a mysterious six-year-old with extraordinary abilities – arrives at her grandfather's fortified stronghouse. Logan tries to hate the newcomer, but quickly discovers that she is far more than she appears: a time traveller born 829 years earlier, blessed with prophetic visions and the power to exist in the past, present and future.
Wild Flower reveals to Logan that she has a glorious destiny. Though Logan is just a child, she begins absorbing knowledge and abilities from her future self. She trains with a sword under the expert tutelage of her grandfather's Sergeant-at-Arms, Michael Deedigan and, secretly, through Wild Flower, with a hero from the past.
When Logan's grandfather becomes entangled in a dangerous plot involving two English conspirators, Howison and Dalry, Logan and Wild Flower must navigate a treacherous journey to protect the Queen of the West. The conspirators claim to bear documents from King James, but their true mission is far more sinister. They plan to disgrace the queen or, failing that, to kill her.
As Logan travels with the plotters as a hostage, she discovers her ability to slip between time periods, witnessing herself at the ages of sixteen and twenty. The boundaries between her present and future selves blur. She realises that what will happen has, in some sense, already happened.
With Wild Flower's mystical guidance and Deedigan's unwavering protection, Logan must embrace both her childhood innocence and her powerful destiny. Along the way, she encounters the MacDonald forces led by Finlay and Heather, discovers ancient writings of the philosopher Noory McGregor that foretell Scotland's future independence and learns that her own grandfather will restore honour to the disgraced Clan Grant.
The story culminates in a deadly confrontation where Logan must fully become her future self to thwart the assassination of the Queen of the West but – in a world where past, present and future intertwine – nothing is quite as it seems.
A tale of destiny, courage, and the power of time itself, The Girl With Golden Eyes weaves Scottish history with fantasy to create an unforgettable story of a girl who must grow up too fast to save her world, while somehow remaining exactly who she was always meant to be.

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I was born in Leeds, UK, and currently live in Golcar near Huddersfield.My life has been a tapestry of diverse experiences that ultimately led me to my true calling as an author. My career path has been anything but linear!After high school and college, I worked for Royal Mail in Leeds as a postman & as a manager for many years, before taking voluntary redundancy. I tried to retire, but discovered that I simply wasn't made for a life of leisure!After driving trucks for a few months, I joined 'Halifax Bank of Scotland' in their IT Department. They were later taken over by Lloyds Banking Group who eventually outsourced a lot of their technical support, leading to me taking voluntary redundancy, again.I returned to driving trucks for a while, after which I worked for a year and a half as an IT contractor. I was employed by various major organisations, including Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, the N.H.S., Saint Gobain & Network Rail before joining Burberry, the fashion brand, in the role of On Site IT Support Engineer. I was made redundant in June 2025.My grandmother once told me that my mother, as a young girl, had earnestly declared that she had once lived the life of a queen. Asked if this meant that she had lived in a grand castle and worn a jewelled crown, she replied: "No, I lived in a tent, just like everybody else, I wore a copper crown with no jewels, but I was treated differently because I was the queen. People would bow to me." Asked where she had been a queen, she said in Scotland but, gesturing with a sweep of her arm to indicate upwards and left, she explained: "I was Queen of the West".I studied and researched and I found that she was referring to the Picts who battled against the Vikings during their invasion of Scotland in the year 973. On a visit to Scotland, in a moment of sudden inspiration, I began to write 'The Fire Tree'.Since the age of fourteen, I had aspired to be a writer. Despite at least a dozen attempts, my ambition always ended in dismal failure. My ideas would run out and my inspiration would fade. Writing 'The Fire Tree', however, was completely different. Page after page flowed onto the paper. It was like breaching a dam. Gradually, one book became two, then three, then four and, eventually, a total of seven books! It was only with monumental effort that I compelled myself to stop, there!The author and professor Toni Morrison once said: "If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." I took her at her word.I have two daughters and was raised by a single mother. The female characters who dominate the narrative of my book/s are the kind who are worthy of being role models for young women all over the world. This was not deliberate choice, it was more that the characters simply took over and made me do it!¿Stephen King Connection: The famous author Stephen King once sent me one of his stories to proof read for him. I had encountered him on an online discussion and he put me on a circulation list of 25 people whom he had favoured. Unfortunately, I was totally engrossed in writing 'The Fire Tree' at the time and I, somehow, completely forgot to read his work! He never interacted with me again, from that day on, and made a habit of stoically ignoring me.¿Mick Jagger Encounter: I once met famous rock star Mick Jagger. This was when he was playing a rock concert in a nearby venue and we bumped into him in a café. While discussing music with a group of people on the next table, somebody mentioned The Rolling Stones and my mother (without recognising him) told him "I wouldn't know Mick Jagger even if I met him." He gleefully bought my mother a pot of tea and my brother & I a bottle of Pepsi, each, without identifying himself. It was only when a group of girls rushed over from another table, after he had left, and asked us what he had said, that we discovered that we had encountered a music legend.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Staten House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798901489628
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 263
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland