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A Beltane Gift: Quick Reads, #1
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Summer in Scotland, and Mari is working on an archeological dig of a Viking burial ship during Beltane, a time of the year when the veil shrouding the spirit world thins. What could possibly go wrong?
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A Beltane Gift - Holly Barbo
Also by Holly Barbo
Sage Seed Chronicles
The Founders
The Healers
The Unraveling
The Reweaving
The Lost
Other Titles
Sunstone
Quick Reads
A Beltane Gift
The Dragil: Broken Magic
The Tin of Honey
Treasured Legacy
A Crystal Snowflake
Constricting Contract
The Ball
Second Edition, 2016
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Copyright © 2015 Holly Barbo
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Summer in Scotland, and Mari is working on an archeological dig of a Viking burial ship during Beltane, a time of the year when the veil shrouding the spirit world thins. What could possibly go wrong?
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A Beltane Gift won first prize in the PGP Short Story Competition in August 2015. It is also available as part of the anthologies Change of Tides and Tendrils.
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A Beltane Gift
About the Author
A BELTANE GIFT
~1291 A.D.~
The day was high summer with an onshore breeze ruffling the waters of Loch Sunart. Leda watched as several strong men hauled a small boat out of the water. Muscles strained as the ship resisted the pull of the ropes as if it didn’t want to leave its buoyant home. She knew it was time, and turned her head to scan the progress on the moor. A boat-sized hole had been dug to rest the vessel in. Teams of men from the village maneuvered the dragon boat onto skids and fought the graceful
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