Glenarvon, Volume 1 (of 3)

In the rolling hills of Belfont, Ireland, the respected physician Everard St. Clare lives a quiet life, his world shattered when his estranged brother, a poet‑driven wanderer named Camioli, arrives with his five‑year‑old daughter, Elinor. The brother, haunted by dreams of prophecy and ruin, is turned away by Everard’s wife and forced to seek refuge with their sister, the Abbess of Glenaa. His desperate journey sets the stage for a clash between familial duty and the restless imagination that has driven him to the brink.

Night finds Camioli and his child sheltering in the remote “Wizard’s Glen,” where the silence is broken by haunting banshee wails and a luminous procession of spirits that seem to rise from the very earth. The vision overwhelms him with a sense of the universe’s boundless order, while his daughter’s plaintive cry pulls him back to the stark reality of their exile. Determined to place Elinor under his sister’s protection, Camioli vows to return, leaving the reader poised on the edge of a tale where love, prophecy, and looming tragedy intertwine.