First Books in the Lady Apollonia Mystery Series Now Available
The first two volumes of a new series of mystery novels created by Ellen Foster are now available online in print and e-book. The opening novel, Effigy of the Cloven Hoof, set in the year 1400, provides an overview of the life of the heroine, Lady Apollonia. The second mystery, Plague of a Green Man, takes the reader back to the year 1380 when the heroine was twenty years younger.
Valparaiso, IN, February 08, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The first two volumes of a new series of mystery novels created by Ellen Foster are now available online in print and e-book. The series is set amidst the crises of 14th century England’s wars, plague, papal conflict, and heresy. Its heroine, Lady Apollonia of Aust, though born of noble parentage, is forced to seek fulfillment through successive marriages. Her own quiet intellect enables her to deal with enigmatic challenge while achieving wealth, land, and sovereignty within her own affinity.
The opening novel, Effigy of the Cloven Hoof, set in the year 1400, provides an overview of the heroine’s life but takes the reader first to Lady Apollonia’s home in the village of Aust in Gloucestershire on the River Severn. A demonic storm has driven a tidal bore up the river’s estuary, strewing along its banks a pre-dawn tide of dead lepers. One savagely decapitated body, discovered in a tidal pool, is revealed to be that of a powerful, ancient adversary, whose aristocratic family has long been rumored to worship the devil.
The second mystery, Plague of a Green Man, takes the reader to the year 1380 when many West Country church walls were decorated by carved foliate faces of mysterious meaning. Lady Apollonia is married to her second husband, Edward Aust, but she is temporarily living in Exeter, Devon, where her three younger sons attend the cathedral school. She has capably supervised their family’s expanding interests in Devon’s wool trade while her husband must be in London. The reader is born into the terrifying blindness of an impenetrable fog on Dartmoor, while inside Exeter’s city walls, Lady Apollonia learns that cathedral life is threatened by intimidation. Murderous attacks follow, brutally committed against the merchant community by one whose identity is left in the mark of malevolent green man.
The third novel will be titled Memento Mori, “Remember you must die.” Set in the walled city of Gloucester in 1392-93, the Lady Apollonia is living with her third husband, Robert Windemere, and her scrupulously troublous youngest son, David Aust. Their lives become enmeshed in the church’s struggles against Wycliffe, the violence of organized gangs, and a major theft of royal gold.
Ellen Foster and her husband live in Valparaiso, Indiana. Her books are available in paperback and ebook versions from online retailers. More information may be found at: http://blogs.valpo.edu/ellenfoster/
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The opening novel, Effigy of the Cloven Hoof, set in the year 1400, provides an overview of the heroine’s life but takes the reader first to Lady Apollonia’s home in the village of Aust in Gloucestershire on the River Severn. A demonic storm has driven a tidal bore up the river’s estuary, strewing along its banks a pre-dawn tide of dead lepers. One savagely decapitated body, discovered in a tidal pool, is revealed to be that of a powerful, ancient adversary, whose aristocratic family has long been rumored to worship the devil.
The second mystery, Plague of a Green Man, takes the reader to the year 1380 when many West Country church walls were decorated by carved foliate faces of mysterious meaning. Lady Apollonia is married to her second husband, Edward Aust, but she is temporarily living in Exeter, Devon, where her three younger sons attend the cathedral school. She has capably supervised their family’s expanding interests in Devon’s wool trade while her husband must be in London. The reader is born into the terrifying blindness of an impenetrable fog on Dartmoor, while inside Exeter’s city walls, Lady Apollonia learns that cathedral life is threatened by intimidation. Murderous attacks follow, brutally committed against the merchant community by one whose identity is left in the mark of malevolent green man.
The third novel will be titled Memento Mori, “Remember you must die.” Set in the walled city of Gloucester in 1392-93, the Lady Apollonia is living with her third husband, Robert Windemere, and her scrupulously troublous youngest son, David Aust. Their lives become enmeshed in the church’s struggles against Wycliffe, the violence of organized gangs, and a major theft of royal gold.
Ellen Foster and her husband live in Valparaiso, Indiana. Her books are available in paperback and ebook versions from online retailers. More information may be found at: http://blogs.valpo.edu/ellenfoster/
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