A murder in New York.
A letter from Britain.
An inheritance.
A bloodline older than history.
A 2,000-year-old war.
The Samhain Legacy
The Inheritance Trilogy
The story
A New Yorker inherits a Welsh manor built on an ancient stone circle, and learns his bloodline makes him part of a 2,000-year-old secret order whose enemies have already started killing.
Josh MacMaddock never cared where his family came from. Then gunmen try to kill him on a Manhattan street, his girlfriend dies under a subway train in a second attack, and a cream envelope arrives from Britain: he has inherited an estate on Anglesey, once the beating heart of the Druids.
The house comes with conditions, a chapel built from ancient stones, and a past that won’t stay buried. Strange deaths. Visions of a battle fought two thousand years ago. And a growing certainty that the deaths in New York were no accident.
What Josh has inherited isn’t just a house. It’s a place in a mission as old as the standing stones, and the enemies that come with it.
The world
Where it happens
- 01
New York
Where it begins: a shooting, and a letter.
- 02
Anglesey, North Wales
Ynys Môn. The last stronghold of the Druids, and the house that waits for Josh.
- 03
Madoc’s Trail, America
In the footsteps of a Welsh prince who crossed the Atlantic centuries before Columbus.
The characters
Who you’ll meet
Josh MacMaddock
A New York marketing executive with no interest in the past, until it comes for him.
Helen
His Welsh solicitor, and the first person on Anglesey he learns to trust.
Dr Gwyn Rowlands
An archaeologist with a troubled past, who knows more about the stones than he lets on.
Huw Madoc
The relative Josh never knew, whose will set everything in motion.
Bob
Josh’s friend from home, dragged into a war he never signed up for.
The books
Reading order
Book 1
Who Do You Think You Are?
Josh is a young marketing executive from New York. His life changes dramatically when he is caught up in an apparently drug-related shoot-out and witnesses the murder of his girlfriend. He is unconvinced these events are random, and an overwhelming sense of unease settles over him.
Book 2
Kindred Spirits
A series of incidents centred on the chapel leads to a startling revelation: it stands on the site of an ancient Druidic stone circle, an intersection of ley lines reawakened after centuries of dormancy by oil drilling in the nearby Irish Sea.
Book 3
In Their Bloodied Footsteps
The house on Anglesey has given up its dark secrets, and his place in the secret order of his ancestors is exposed. Then a horrific abduction forces Josh to confront a terrifying enemy from the Celtic Otherworld.
The truth behind the fiction
Real history, real legend
The fall of the Druids
In AD 61 (some historians say AD 60) the Roman governor Suetonius Paulinus crossed the Menai Strait to destroy the Druids on Anglesey. The Roman historian Tacitus described black-robed women and Druids calling down curses from the shore.
Samhain
The Celtic festival at summer’s end, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld was believed to grow thin. It lives on today as Halloween.
Prince Madoc
Welsh legend tells of Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd, who sailed west in 1170 and reached America. Later travellers reported Welsh-speaking peoples on the Missouri.
John Dee’s mirror
Elizabeth I’s astrologer used an Aztec mirror of polished obsidian to speak with spirits. It survives today in the British Museum.
Ley lines
In 1921 Alfred Watkins noticed ancient sites falling into straight lines across the landscape. Some believe they trace currents of earth energy.
What readers say
“Couldn’t put it down! … there’s some pretty creepy bits around involving Halloween and flashbacks of past lives.”
“Best book I’ve read in ages! … by the end of the first chapter I was hooked.”
“A bit paranormal, a bit genealogical, a bit boy-meets-girl, and a lot intriguing.”
For producers
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