Author Stumbles on Revelation with a Single Word.

In the early months of 2002 Frank James was lost in a delirium of research on the peoples of ancient Briton. He speed read a paper and froze as one word leaped from the page at him. Frank found the 'small insignificant fact that sets most novels on fire. The word was 'matrilineal and meant the passing of noble heritage through only the female line.

August, 2003 -- In the early months of 2002 Frank James was lost in a delirium of research on the peoples of ancient Briton. He speed read a paper and froze as one word leaped from the page at him. Frank found the 'small insignificant fact that sets most novels on fire. The word was 'matrilineal and meant the passing of noble heritage through only the female line.

This was a practice of the early Scots and Picts and was also closely related to another legend of Ireland familiar to Frank. He managed to link a growing chain of little known facts and traced the peoples back and back further than imagined and linked them to nations believed long lost. When he was finished The Lions Seed" was born and is now available as a paperback novel.

Who were the Picts and Scots? Were they just tribes that made the Romans tremble and Britons marvel? Were they merely warring nations who lived in obscurity without name or station? Can we know more than that of them? And if all we have to turn to is myth and legend, then why not sift the sands until the residue reveals its source?

Once an account was relayed it was retold and became a legend and in the course of time with much retelling it became a myth. But all myths have a nugget of truth and so when the ancient Calgacus declared his nation as the 'distant dwellers, shielded by their remoteness and the obscurity which has shrouded our name. He tells us that their name, their origin, was in question by others, but not necessarily by them. Even today the arguments of the origins of these ancient nations and tribes rage on.

'The Lions Seed tells a story of those ancient peoples. It picks up the legend in the 10th Century AD with a kingly family determined to strive for peace. There is a girl child and true to the ancient matrilineal descent she is the only one, who alone can aid in the struggle for peace. Linnea, born to the Pictish king is of both Scotii and Pictii heritage and from her innocent womb must spring the ruler of both these peoples. A son from her would be mutually accepted by the nations and the major wars between the two would cease.

Her father is killed in battle and her brother takes her to safety where she must grow to become ready for marriage. At all costs she must be kept safe from a mother, who would marry her to make war and use her for her own ends. Then she must be married to a man of her fathers choosing to ensure the peace between the two nations.    

However everything goes awry shortly after her marriage to a fierce warrior. She runs from his protection but lands in a quagmire of her mothers making. She is without hope of rescue and being forced to marry a man chosen by her mother. Commanded to forget the previous marriage she faces her future with fear and dread. Too far from any she once trusted and knowing she is running out of time.

The Lion's Seed is now available at all major online bookstores, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Books A million. Ask at your local bookstore to preorder, The Lion's Seed from Publish America of Baltimore, MD publishamerica.com.