Linden's well-researched tale eloquently brings to life a lesser-known period of transition in Britain. . . . The author has created a strong foundation for her series with well-developed characters whom readers can embrace. . . . [a] layered, gripping historical fiction. — Kirkus Reviews
Linden's well-researched tale eloquently brings to life a lesser-known period of transition in Britain. . . . The author has created a strong foundation for her series with well-developed characters whom readers can embrace. . . . [a] layered, gripping historical fiction. — Kirkus Reviews
The Druid Chronicles is a historical fiction series set in Anglo-Saxon Britain during a time known alternatively as the early medieval period or the Dark Ages. Books 1, 3, 4, and 5 follow the members of a once influential Druid cult as they venture outside of the hidden sanctuary where they’d previously remained aloof from the otherwise relentless spread of Christianity. Book 2 begins a generation earlier and recounts the events that set the main story in motion.
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The Oath, Book One of The Druid Chronicles
In the wake of a betrayal that threatens an end to their way of life, the last members of a secretive pagan cult send Caelym, the youngest of their remaining priests, on a desperate mission into a world where Druids, once revered as healers, poets, and oracles, are now reviled as wizards and witches.
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The Valley, Book Two of The Druid Chronicles
Book Two, The Valley, interweaves the story of Caelym’s boyhood and coming of age with the struggles of his teachers to maintain traditions begun a millennium earlier in the face of increasing outside pressures, shrinking resources, and a growing schism within their highest ranks.
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The Sheriff, Book Three of The Druid Chronicles
In the spring of AD 788, Stefan, a victorious Saxon warrior, returns from a series of hard-won battles only to be stripped of his command and sent to serve as the sheriff and tax-collector of a remote shire located in a fog-shrouded valley surrounded by dark forbidding mountains and teeming with rumors of ghosts, witches, and sorcerers.
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The Quarry, Book Four of The Druid Chronicles
Fresh from tracking down a run-away princess, Stefan, sheriff of the shire of Codswallow, sets off on a new mission—to capture a band of pagan Britons rumored to be sorcerers and sorceresses—unaware that he is being hunted by deadly enemies of his own.
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The Quarry is scheduled to be published by She Writes Press September 24, 2025
About the Author: Ann Margaret Linden was born in Seattle, Washington, but grew up on the East Coast before returning to the Pacific Northwest as a young adult. She has undergraduate degrees in anthropology and in nursing and a master’s degree as a nurse practitioner. After working in a variety of acute care and community health settings, she took a position in a program for children with special health care needs where her responsibilities included writing a variety of program related materials.
The Druid Chronicles began as a somewhat whimsical decision to write something for fun and ended up becoming a lengthy journey that involved Linden taking adult education creative writing courses, researching early British history, and traveling to England, Scotland, and Wales. Now retired from nursing, she lives with her husband in the northwest corner of Washington State where she is active in a local writers’ group as well as continuing as an advocate for children and adults with special needs.
The Druid Chronicles began as a somewhat whimsical decision to write something for fun and ended up becoming a lengthy journey that involved Linden taking adult education creative writing courses, researching early British history, and traveling to England, Scotland, and Wales. Now retired from nursing, she lives with her husband in the northwest corner of Washington State where she is active in a local writers’ group as well as continuing as an advocate for children and adults with special needs.
A. M, Linden on Substack: Letters from Llwddawanden