This 4-book novel is based on Celtic, Norse and Native American myth and legend and centers on the Key to the Ancient Harmonies. The Coming of the Women and Ragnarok feature prominently. Locations are The Democratic Republic of Cayo Ladron near Florida, Key West, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Wales, Spain, and Jotunheim on the Sweden-Norway border.
Hugh Reynir is a professional photographer and amateur bluegrass banjo player living in Key West, Florida, where the novel begins.
While on vacation in Scotland in search of his Celtic roots and his estranged wife, he receives a fore-saying that plunges him into a
quest for the Key to the coming Age, who will restore the lost Ancient Harmonies of Earth.
He will see before it shows
Understand before he knows
Guide the One who bears the Key
Half in hiding, half-revealed.He is fired about from one life-threatening and character-enhancing adventure to another in the British Isles and Ireland by those who
wish to bend the Key to their own purposes, or at least to influence the Key Bearer, who may or may not be Hugh. Along his way to
champion Ellan, the as yet unconceived pure soul who seems to be the object of the quest, he is befriended and beleaguered by a number of
personages and elements from Celtic and Norse mythology, including the harp Macalla.Whoever the Key or the Key Bearer turns out to be, Hugh finds and follows his Pattern to learn who he himself really is and will become.
Earn Fire is contemporaneous with the first part of The Shore of Two Worlds.
Book Two - The Shore of Two Worlds
While Reynir is on his Key Quest, Detroit lawyer Cynthia Elizabeth Hennessy is sent by her boss to Key West to recuperate from the
devastating loss of an important case regarding Native American treaty rights. She meets the residents of the Democratic Republic of Cayo
Ladron, an island near Key West that proclaims itself an independent country, and converts to their natural lifestyle. With her name
streamlined to Cindy, she helps win a legal battle against property developers who want to annex the Island to the United States.Cindy uses the information she learned from the Cayo Ladron case to win an appeal of the treaty case in federal court. Jamie, the young
Irish-Cherokee ferry captain and Island ambassador and judge, is an important ally. She uses her deep insight to welcome people to the Island
who need its healing air to become what they should be. Akakojiishi, an Ojibwe girl with paranormal abilities, and Jamie form a deep bond.
Cindy follows her instinct to meet the Otherworld father-to-be of Ellan.Book Three - Wakings
Ellan is born. Ages-old Jotunn woman Skadi wakes to guard and guide Ellan and lead humans in the coming battle of Ragnarok. Ellan tries to
fall in love and fails. Ellan is revealed as the mother-to-be of the Key to the Ancient Harmonies. Reynir decides to travel for a while. Ellan insists
on taking a gap year from school to join him on the Camino de Santiago.
Book Four - Revelations
Ellan meets her grandfather Angus in the flesh for the first time at Bru na Boinne in Ireland. In preparation for Ragnarok, Reynir leads Ellan,
Akakojiishi, Jamie, and magpie Selia on the Camino de Santiago, where they are joined by Irish harper Aisling, who is friendly with the Irish
Fair Folk. Along the way, they meet a friend and an enemy.Ragnarok lasts ten years in this world time. The battle group defending Midgardr against Fire Giants Muspellsons, Frost Giants, Loki, World
Serpent Jormungandr, the Hordes of Hel, and Fenris-Wolf simultaneously fight the on-going battle in the Otherworld and pursue their normal
lives in this world.With Midgardr saved from destruction yet again, Skadi suffers an End of Age identity crisis, bored with killing giants and being a Jotunn. The
Key to the Ancient Harmonies is revealed, questions are answered, and loose threads are resolved.
See details and photos of the first two volumes, Earn Fire and The Shore of Two Worlds, on my blog at The Key Bearer Saga
.