The Gifford Trilogy

A gripping medieval family saga of betrayal and revenge, romance and witchcraft, set against a background of superstition and fear of the unknown.

It is 1460 and England’s peace is torn apart by the rivalry of the houses of York and Lancaster. In the murky half-world between superstition and reality, young Rose Cooper waits to find love. Born into a family whose women are gifted with the Sight, an ability to foresee the future, Rose longs to know who she will marry. Unable to use her gift, she she turns to her mother for help. Together they awaken the slumbering forces of an ancient power, unknowingly setting off a chain of events that will change their lives forever. Into her world comes Tom Gifford, the starving son of a brutal stonemason. Penniless, but a talented artist, Tom is apprenticed to a glass painter at York Minster. Their lives collide through a series of coincidences.

After surviving the bloody battle of Towton, Tom becomes ensnared in the service of the king’s spymaster. Together, he and Rose are drawn into the murky world of espionage, and when she tries to help Tom, Rose unwittingly puts herself in deadly danger. She is abducted to an unimaginable fate, and it is only when her family’s gift is summoned that the invocation of dark forces saves Rose from the brutal clutches of her captors and exacts a terrible revenge. Tom’s love and honourable integrity bond them together in spite of Rose’s fears that her physical imperfection would stop her from ever finding true happiness. In a final twist of fate, Tom’s past life catches up with them, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma.

A tapestry of the brutal realism of the medieval world is brought to life by a series of strong characters. At breath-taking speed, this gripping saga is part love story and part epic adventure, and will appeal to all those who love a hint of the supernatural grounded in reality. The twists and turns of the fast-moving plot will keep you captive until the final tick.