https://creatspace.com/4737313 Mamm of Tarnos in print!

You can order it now via the above link; it's going to be a few days before it shows up on Amazon, longer for other venues.

That tall thing with the wolf head on the left is a carnyx, a War Horn. Then there's Ethan's horse Rogue, a Bell, Ethan and Mamm of Tarnos, a Calling Horn, another Horn up there with a Bell hanging from it, a couple more Bells down below, and Ordha who is MammTwo's (Mamm of Tarnos) horse.

Mamm of Tarnos

 

They Are My Song Book 3

Authored by Shiela Branson
In Mamm of Tarnos we continue our visit with the people from the long-ago past of 487/88 AD and earlier even than that, many of whom we meet in They Are My Song and get to know a bit better in Mamm of Perth.

Mamm of Dunnottar, together with TavishUllin of Iona and a surprise story-teller in our midst take us back once more to Mamm's family history and the adventures of her heirloom under-bed storage chest, made by her great-grandmother a very long time back.

The sisters Alianora of Perth and Mamm of Tarnos both make heart-rending choices; their younger sisters the Warrior Twins Sass and Saille now of Dunnottar and the Fienne find a new meaning in their career choice; the stage of the larger world upon which these Characters stand explodes beneath their very feet, yet they remain standing.

In this dual story line, the Dunnottar folk embrace a family tradition and search within themselves for the meanings behind the elements of the Song of the Trinity. 

As the generations continue to unfold the ancient past comes to life and we begin to realize that the stand our people took clear back then is very much impacting us in today's world. 

Within the pages of the books of this series, one family's struggles and triumphs highlight real world events which affect them in very real ways. 

These Characters do what they have to do when they have to do it; and because they choose as they do, the Legacy for which they take their stand is preserved and protected - it belongs to us now.

We of their far-distant future walk among our ancestors for a time in the pages of the books of They Are My Song. Do they know we are there? Perhaps so. As they Speak, perhaps it is to us their Voices are directed.

When they raise those Voices in the Song of the Holy Trinity, what music fills our hearts and souls?

Of what do we think, and what do we feel, when a Voice from the Past Sings of Choice?
Of Creation, Life, Death, Eternity?
Of Peace?
Of Faith?
Of Healing?
Of Hope and Tomorrow?
Of Love?
Of Unity?

Which Songs from your own life do you hear as these Voices from so long ago Sing to us here in their far distant future? 

Listen to your heart, my friend. Within it you will hear the echo of the Song of these Voices. A time will come in your own life - you will need to search for and find your own Song, and you will need to raise your own Voice as you take your stand.

Just as our people, the Characters of SONG, lived their everyday ordinary lives amid the challenges of a changing world, so too do we. What Legacy do our Voices Sing of? What Song will our descendants hear when they listen with their hearts 1500 years from now? 

LOL - end of sermon.

Mamm of Dunnottar would shake her head at me and tell me to quit trying to think for anyone except my own self.

Sidhelagh might produce a merry laugh at my expense.

Sure these are fictional Characters in a bunch of books - but they represent the real folk from whom many of us draw our DNA. Not just from those in the settings of these books ... the peoples that these Characters represent covered most of Europe and much of the rest of the world, traveling and settling through the Ages in places we would never have expected to find them.

The Song lives on, and the Magic is not dead - both are right there, tucked carefully away inside you. 

Find them.

About the author:
Author Shiela Branson was born in Texas, raised in North Dakota, and loves the Colorado Rockies, the Valley, and the plains of the USA.

In the fiction series They Are My Song, Shiela takes us on a journey into the Ancient Past to spend some time with our ancestors.

Her love of history and research helps to make our journey a very real visit to a time and a place we will never otherwise know. 

"The Characters of SONG represent the real people who lived long before us. In turn, they are represented in our today's world by the real people on whom their traits are loosely based."

The wheel of time goes around and around; we could be them and they could be us. To those who will live 1500 years or so from now, we WILL be them.

That's something to think about.