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Linda Acaster
Linda Acaster’s published work includes four historical
novels, and over sixty short stories in genres as diverse as women’s, horror, crime, fantasy and SF, published in magazines
in the UK, US and Europe. She has also written travel features and opinion pieces for the UK press, and an abundance of articles
on the techniques of writing fiction.
A past tutor for the Arvon Foundation, she has led workshops and spoken at writers’ conferences across the north of England. She spent six years on the reading panel for the New Writers’ Scheme administered by the Romantic Novelists’ Association, and two years as the co-ordinator of its Northern Chapter.
She was prominent in setting up the East Riding of Yorkshire Novelsearch, offering writers advice on bringing their work to publishable standard and now runs her own critique service. She is a member of the Society of Authors.
Torc Of Moonlight To be launched October 2009
To read an extract, click here.
Hull student Nicholas Blaketon realises that his life has fallen into a demoralising pattern. Humiliated and angry, he becomes fixated on pale and reclusive Alice Linwood.
Alice believes that people close to her die. She seeks escape by steering her future back into the past to uncover the shrine of a forgotten Celtic water goddess.
Leonard Harkin uses pseudo–pagan rites to ensnare naïve young lovers, but when old lovers return with the strength of cynical womanhood, is it in joy or to close his pattern?
High on the North York Moors, Romano–Briton Ognirius Licinius Vranaun has clung to a thread of life–force through millennia, sustained by a thirst for retribution as targeted as once was his vengeance on the Keepers of the Pool.
Now he knows how to use the elements to his advantage, and this time he will succeed – unless Nicholas can stop Alice from revealing the shrine and completing the pattern.
Comment from Stuart Aken, author of 'Breaking Faith': In 'Torc of Moonlight', Linda Acaster gives us a book which is more than simply a damn good read. This well crafted paranormal romance leads the reader through mysteries that are only gradually revealed, frightening us along the route taken by the possessed lovers. She builds empathy for the central characters, putting us inside their minds to explain their motives, drives and fears, and shredding our hearts with their emotional experiences. That she handles the male point of view with as much skill and sympathy as that of the female says a great deal about this writer’s observational powers.
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