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The Lynher Mill Chronicles #2
The Lightning and the Blade
Manipulating the greatest of nature’s forces is a deadly game for the unwary and the unskilled. Manipulating the hearts and minds of ancient and powerful enemies can prove deadlier still, and the effects echo across a land that is poised for battle, and just waiting for a reason.
Trouble is stirring along a Cornish coastline notorious for both shipwrecks and smuggling. With elementals playing their wicked weather-games, and a mortal woman rapidly sliding into self-destruction, supply meets demand and the stakes are raised to terrifying and tragic heights.
Meanwhile, an uneasy peace has settled over the village of Lynher Mill, and a royal marriage promises to unite the moorland elementals and their old enemies on the coast. But the bride’s brother has his own reasons for sabotaging the union; his dark and secret work depends upon it. He digs deep enough to uncover long-buried hatreds and ensures those ugly truths come to light, and before long the two races embark on a collision course that threatens to destroy them both, and the mortals who stray into their path.
Trouble is stirring along a Cornish coastline notorious for both shipwrecks and smuggling. With elementals playing their wicked weather-games, and a mortal woman rapidly sliding into self-destruction, supply meets demand and the stakes are raised to terrifying and tragic heights.
Meanwhile, an uneasy peace has settled over the village of Lynher Mill, and a royal marriage promises to unite the moorland elementals and their old enemies on the coast. But the bride’s brother has his own reasons for sabotaging the union; his dark and secret work depends upon it. He digs deep enough to uncover long-buried hatreds and ensures those ugly truths come to light, and before long the two races embark on a collision course that threatens to destroy them both, and the mortals who stray into their path.
466 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 8, 2014
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About the author
Terri Nixon
24 books51 followersTerri was born in Plymouth in 1965. At the age of 9 she moved with her family to Cornwall, to a small village on the edge of Bodmin Moor, where she discovered a love of writing that has stayed with her ever since. She also discovered apple-scrumping, and how to jump out of a hayloft without breaking any bones, but no-one's ever offered to pay her for doing those.
Since publishing in paperback for the first time in 2002, Terri has appeared in both print and online fiction collections, and is proud to have contributed to the Shirley Jackson award-nominated hardback collection: Bound for Evil, by Dead Letter Press. As a Hybrid author, her first commercially published novel was Maid of Oaklands Manor, published by Piatkus Entice (a digital-first imprint of Little, Brown,) and short-listed in the "Best Historical Read" category at the Festival of Romance 2013. The sequel, A Rose in Flanders Fields, was published by Carina UK (a digital-first imprint of HarperCollins) and was short-listed in the same category in 2014.
Terri's self-published Mythic Fiction series set in Cornwall, The Lynher Mill Chronicles, has now been launched. Books one and two are available in print and e-book, and the third book in the series is due for release in June 2015.
Terri now lives in Plymouth with her youngest son, and works in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Plymouth University, where she is constantly baffled by the number of students who don't possess pens.
Terri also writes under the name T Nixon, and has contributed to anthologies under the names Terri Pine and Teresa Nixon. She is represented by the Kate Nash Literary Agency.
Since publishing in paperback for the first time in 2002, Terri has appeared in both print and online fiction collections, and is proud to have contributed to the Shirley Jackson award-nominated hardback collection: Bound for Evil, by Dead Letter Press. As a Hybrid author, her first commercially published novel was Maid of Oaklands Manor, published by Piatkus Entice (a digital-first imprint of Little, Brown,) and short-listed in the "Best Historical Read" category at the Festival of Romance 2013. The sequel, A Rose in Flanders Fields, was published by Carina UK (a digital-first imprint of HarperCollins) and was short-listed in the same category in 2014.
Terri's self-published Mythic Fiction series set in Cornwall, The Lynher Mill Chronicles, has now been launched. Books one and two are available in print and e-book, and the third book in the series is due for release in June 2015.
Terri now lives in Plymouth with her youngest son, and works in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Plymouth University, where she is constantly baffled by the number of students who don't possess pens.
Terri also writes under the name T Nixon, and has contributed to anthologies under the names Terri Pine and Teresa Nixon. She is represented by the Kate Nash Literary Agency.
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June 9, 2022
If anything, this is even better than the first instalment, there is no escape from destiny - or Lynher Mill. Laura and Richard (and Baby Ben) are dragged back underground to an inheritance they cannot get away from, and Jacky Greencoat is forced into a situation he does not want to be in.
Nailbiting conflict ensues, and I was going to wait a bit to read the third, but I'm not sure I can now.
Cracking stuff.
Nailbiting conflict ensues, and I was going to wait a bit to read the third, but I'm not sure I can now.
Cracking stuff.
June 30, 2014
This is the second book in the Lynher Mill Chronicles and it picks up where The Dust of Ancients left off. This review will obviously have spoilers in for the Dust of Ancients so don't read if you haven't read the previous book and intend to.
Richard is happy with Laura and they have baby Ben. Casta is king and Deena is happy with how things played out. Her husband is king and her son, Maer, will follow in his footsteps.
Maer meets and quickly falls in love with the beautifully named Neryyn. A match that is destined to - well, who knows until the final book in the trilogy plays out.
There is much to love in this second book. Old favourites as mentioned above and new characters in the Coastal and Forest Elementals. Deceit and treachery, and love and honour.
I have to admit to crying some tears towards the end of the book as Nixon tightly turned the emotional screws as that love and honour was pushed to its limits. A wonderful read. She now needs to write faster so I can find out what happens!
Richard is happy with Laura and they have baby Ben. Casta is king and Deena is happy with how things played out. Her husband is king and her son, Maer, will follow in his footsteps.
Maer meets and quickly falls in love with the beautifully named Neryyn. A match that is destined to - well, who knows until the final book in the trilogy plays out.
There is much to love in this second book. Old favourites as mentioned above and new characters in the Coastal and Forest Elementals. Deceit and treachery, and love and honour.
I have to admit to crying some tears towards the end of the book as Nixon tightly turned the emotional screws as that love and honour was pushed to its limits. A wonderful read. She now needs to write faster so I can find out what happens!
March 4, 2015
The continued story of the Lynher Mill Chronicles is once more a great feat of writing. Where "The Dust of Ancients" concentrated more on friendship, and even though family played a big part as well, the sequel focuses more on family, heritage, and destiny through the blood. We learn more about the different families or "races" that inhabit this rural fantasy, and we witness how they start to fight each other to gain true rulership over all.
Personally I liked the chapters from Laura's point of view best, as a human caught up between the feuds between the different fairies, her fear for losing both her love Richard as well as their son, the evolution of her relationship with Jane and how this girl unwittingly plays a big part in the direction the fairies will lead her life.
This story promises a big finale, a true game of thrones type of story, and I'm personally curious to see what part in all this Jacky Greencoat has left to play.
Personally I liked the chapters from Laura's point of view best, as a human caught up between the feuds between the different fairies, her fear for losing both her love Richard as well as their son, the evolution of her relationship with Jane and how this girl unwittingly plays a big part in the direction the fairies will lead her life.
This story promises a big finale, a true game of thrones type of story, and I'm personally curious to see what part in all this Jacky Greencoat has left to play.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 2, 2015
Again fabulous reviews for the second book in the Series (The Dust of Ancients being the first) on both Amazon and Goodreads! I could wait to get started on this after reading these reviews and the first book!
We get to hear from old characters and new ones to, as Laura and Richard carry on with their life in the mortal world, with their toddler Ben and now Casta is king and Deena is happy with this and happy in the thought that Maer will follow in Casta's footsteps! Mear meets Nerryn and falls in love with her which is when the fun starts, with the intrigue, fighting, love deceit etc start to happen.
This second book is well written like the first and comes highly recommended! Considering I started yesterday (Sunday 01.02.2015) and finished this evening when I got home from home work!
I am now looking forward to the third book being published!
We get to hear from old characters and new ones to, as Laura and Richard carry on with their life in the mortal world, with their toddler Ben and now Casta is king and Deena is happy with this and happy in the thought that Maer will follow in Casta's footsteps! Mear meets Nerryn and falls in love with her which is when the fun starts, with the intrigue, fighting, love deceit etc start to happen.
This second book is well written like the first and comes highly recommended! Considering I started yesterday (Sunday 01.02.2015) and finished this evening when I got home from home work!
I am now looking forward to the third book being published!
January 25, 2016
This book follows on from the Dust of the Ancients and features many of the original characters. Like the first, this is a compelling read with romance mixed with tantalizing paranormal activities in which humans are caught up with the feuding Cornish coastal and land faeries. Fully rounded characters in an imaginable and beautiful setting mingle in a story that gallops along leaving the reader (me!) wanting more. And there will be more, because now I can read the third book.
September 14, 2016
This is the second book in the Lynher Mill Chronicles and picks up nicely from where the first book left off.
It is quite dark in places but the author has created a believable fantasy world vying for control in their world and crossing in to the mortal world.
The two worlds have trouble combining the unseen world of the elements who have their own issues between their nations.
Secrets and plots abound affecting both the elementals and mortals above ground.
It is quite dark in places but the author has created a believable fantasy world vying for control in their world and crossing in to the mortal world.
The two worlds have trouble combining the unseen world of the elements who have their own issues between their nations.
Secrets and plots abound affecting both the elementals and mortals above ground.
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