Merlin is just an ordinary boy...until the mysterious sorcerer Guinevere sails into the quiet village where he lives. What does she want with Merlin? And why does his faithful cat, Happenstance, appear to already kw all about her?
R.D. Shanks is a Scottish writer and a keen reader of an eclectic range of fiction. She especially enjoys books with castles, detectives and/or dragons. She started writing her first novel, 'A Reverie of Brothers', when she was sixteen, after falling in love with the dreamlike landscape of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Novels. She is currently writing a series of books for children. She lives in Ayrshire with her fiance and their two mischievous cats.