Homegoing: The Tall Ships of Saradena, Book 1

by Michelle Markey Butler

Disowned. Disgraced. Discarded. I had been Princess of Bruster, then Queen of Ferrant. Now I was neither. I built a new life, in a new land. The clerk of my adopted lord. I wanted to copy books and build his library. Quiet and unremarked amongst parchment and ink.

Then the great ship came. It delivered a letter - to a land where almost no one could read. By the time the letter came to my hands, the ship had departed. We had no way to tell them we had never heard of them. They gave us one year, but how could we meet their demands when we did not know what they meant? War was coming. Unless I could prevent it.

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First published December 1, 2014

About the author

Retired from teaching after more than twenty-five years, I am delighted to have more time for other pursuits.

My debut novel, Homegoing, was recently released by Pink Narcissus Press. A second novel, The Last Abbot of Linn Duachaill, co-authored with Jess Barry, was published by S&H Publishing.

Current projects include the next book in the Tall Ships of Saradena series (after Homegoing), a sequel to The Last Abbot of Linn Duachaill, and a set of connected romance novels.

At True Crime Medieval, Anne Brannen and I cover criminal mayhem from the Middle Ages. Laurie Dietrich provides the transcripts. It turns out people stole, poisoned, ambushed, cheated, manipulated, massacred, and murdered every bit as much during the Middle Ages as now. Which can be depressing or encouraging, depending.

Reviews

[Jennifer Barnes · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved how the author took made up lands and characters and through breathtaking and vivid descriptions, made them come alive, causing you to want to visit and get to know them further. From the start the author weaves many different plot lines, seamlessly together, moving the story along nicely and making you want to turn each page in hopes of finding out what happens next. I am hooked on the characters and vested in their lives. I can't wait for the next book to find out what happens next. This book crosses genres, pulling in readers who love fiction or fantasy, and making even readers who prefer contemporary settings, want to visit these new lands and get to know the characters.

[Cynthia Hunt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book one in the Tall Ships of Saradena series. Features Maudlin, born a Princess of Bruster, then married to the King of Ferrant, then , when she fails to conceive in five years, the marriage is dissolved and she is sent home in disgrace, only to go to Vere to be trained as a scholar. We meet her after all of this, while she is setting up a library for the Roth, ruler of a neighboring kingdom, and a messenger arrives, delivered by someone who arrived from Saradena aboard a tall ship, then sailed away. The Roth has been given a year to meet the conditions set forth by a much earlier meeting with Saradena or war will be declared. Problem is, literacy has, until recently been frowned upon throughout the land, and nobody remembers anything about a treaty, much less Saradena. So Maudlin is sent to a neighboring kingdom to see if they have any old records that could help them figure this out.

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[Simalova · Rating 4 out of 5]

Any updates on the continuation of this series?

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