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Tony Butler
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Merlin's Granddaughter
Raised by the Wizard Merlin, Rowena is buried alive in a coffin of ice by the evil Morgan-le-Fey.
Using the last of his power, Merlin summons The-Lady-Of-The-Lake, who decrees that Rowena shall not die - but awake
in fifteen-hundred-years.
It is 2007 when 13-year-old twins, Kelly and Josh find Rowena and befriend her.
Septimus Crowley, an ageing millionare learns of Rowena's existence and wants to capture her and sell her for
scientific research.
His assistants, Jeremy and Melissa are soon on Rowena's trail and closing in, when Anna Galahad, a descendant of the
Knight of the Round Table, comes to the children's aide.
Anna rides a Harley Davidson motorbike and is a Karate black-belt 4th Dan.
And Rowena Pendragon? Well Merlin's Granddaughter - has powers of her own.
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Different
What is happening to eighteen-year-old Jay? Why is she changing?
How did she manage to lift a bus and free her friend trapped beneath its wheels?
What was the blue light that flooded from Jay’s hands?
Who was the boy she dreamed of and who was being eaten alive by rats?
Why were the sick blocking the streets where she lived in the hope of her performing miracle cures?
Could she ever risk having children – knowing her mother had laid an egg?
What was she really, this product of an unlawful genetic experiment that took place before she was born, on land
known as the Devil’s Footprint?
With two of the most powerful men in the world, the British Prime Minister and the Vice-President of the USA,
hunting her down to kill her and remove the threat of their part in the experiments being exposed, how long could Jay survive?
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Killing Cat
Catriona Travino has fifteen days left to live, before being
executed by lethal injection.
Miles Cavendish, has been invited to witness her death. He can hardly wait, because he’d personally framed
Catriona for the murder she will die for.
Her execution would be his revenge, for when Catriona was sixteen he’d been about to rape her when she had
rammed her thumbs into his eyes, half blinding him.
Serena, the girl Catriona had been convicted of murdering, was somewhere in the Bitterfoot Forests in Montana.
He’d kidnapped and taken her there personally and witnessed her forced marriage to the son of the leader of an extreme survivalist group. She would never be allowed to leave them
alive.
But evidence pointing to Cat’s innocence was beginning to emerge, and DA Diane Anelloni and Serena’s older
sister, Rachel were flying to Montana. Rachel had found a message on her answering service.
And according to the message, Serena, her kid sister, was still alive.
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 1
Over a hundred years have passed since the Saxon King Harold Godwinson fell in battle to the Norman Duke,
William. For their part the Norman’s, led by their Bishops, seize as much land from the English as they can.
Disenfranchised young men and women are reduced to begging or thievery, for being untrained for farming or
manual work they have become unemployable.
15-year-old Robert of Loxley, accompanied by Will Stutley, his father’s steward, are returning to
Nottingham after seeing the Earl set sail for the Holy Land.
Robert reflects on Will’s tutorship and their discovery that Robert was a natural bowman of unusual
accuracy and speed.
It is outside an inn that Robert of Loxley has his first confrontation with the man destined to become his
mortal enemy, Sir Guy-of-Gisbourne, who condescendingly refers to Robert as, ‘. . . young ‘Rob in his hood’, and so the legend of Robin Hood, is born.
Robin and Will meet David of Doncaster and learn how honest men, denied justice, are forced to live as
outlaws.
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 2
When The Lord High Sheriff of
Nottingham tells Sir Guy of Gisbourne that he has arranged for the Earl of Loxley to be murdered, aboard the ship carrying him to the Holy Lands, Guy has no choice but to swear an
oath of loyalty to the Sheriff or, be killed in cold blood.
After pledging his loyalty the
Sheriff sweetens their bargain with the promise that if Gisbourne can rid him of Robert of Loxley (Robin Hood), by having him made an outlaw, and so forfeiting his inheritance, the
Sheriff, will give him the hand of the Lady Marion Fitzwalter, the King’s ward, in marriage.
Robin learns from an innkeeper how
archers are being tricked into shooting deer, by the Kings’ Foresters, and then hung as poachers. Their homes and possessions are sold, the money from which goes into the Sheriff of
Nottingham’s coffers. The dead man’s family are thrown onto the streets to beg.
Swearing to avenge the deaths of the
archers, Robin takes his bow, walks into Gisbourne’s trap, and into history.
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 3
Robin Hood takes the purses of the dead foresters to the landlord of the inn
and instructs him to distribute the money to the families of the archers hung by the sheriff’s men.
When the wife of one of those hung reveals the desperate situation of her
family and the others he invites them to set up camp in Sherwood Forest where he will protect them.
He encounters a combat between William Morris, England’s most famous knight,
and a Norman. Robin foils the Norman’s treachery which resulted in the murder of another knight.
The chaos of the camp in Sherwood Forest causes Robin to remember his first
boyhood battle with a bully and the start of the friendship between him and, Much, the miller’s son.
Will Stutley arrives at the camp with old friends wanting to join their
community.
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 4
Will Stutley takes charge of sorting out the camp and Robin,
accompanied by David-of-Doncaster journey to the mill to recruit Much, the miller’s son.
They
find him, armed only with iron ladles, fighting off some of the Sheriff’s men, and learn that they intend to hang him for poaching a rabbit.
A sergeant arrives and orders that Much is not hung but given
a beating.
Robin and David, intervene and the sergeant, who is a fair
man, confides to Robin that Sir Guy of Gisbourne is sworn to capture Robin Hood, but the Sheriff of Nottingham has offered Robin a pardon.
Sir Guy of Gisbourne informs Marion that by order of Prince
John she is to marry him and that should she resist his advances he will impregnate her against her will before their wedding, and so shame her.
Marion agrees that after they have dined with the sheriff, Guy
can come to her bedchamber and to her bed.
Marion makes a fool of Sir Guy of Gisbourne.
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 5
Robin Hood is wandering Sherwood Forest wearing his favourite
disguise, that of a pedlar. He meets a page boy who is carrying a sword and decides to test the boy’s skill. It is only after a fierce fight that leaves both of them wounded that
Robin learns the boy’s identity.
Robin and Marion are reunited in Sherwood Forest.
The Druid priest, who will marry them in their traditional
roles as the Lord of the Woods and The Lady Queen of May, on the day of the feast of Beltane, prepares them for the ceremony.
Robin Hood and Little John’s first encounter, mid point and
face to face, on a felled tree that bridges a stream. Neither will yield the right of way to the other and so they decide the matter using quarter staffs.
Following the ‘christening’ of Little John and the welcoming
celebrations, Will Stutley stands down as Robin’s deputy and appoints Little John as his successor.
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 6
When Robin Hood hears that a curtail friar, the Abbot of
Fountains Abbey, in Yorkshire could beat him, Little John and all his men in combat, he sets out to test the truth of it.
Friar Tuck and Robin Hood get wet.
Sir Guy of Gisbourne tries his hand at murder.
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 7
In which Little John saves one of Gisbourne’s victims and
falls in love.
The Beltane’s Eve celebrations begin and Robin Hood jumps the
flames with the Druid Priestess and sows his last wild oats.
Marion has been captured and to uphold tradition Robin will
have to wed a newly chosen lady Queen of May.
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 8
Robin unable to face choosing a new bride leaves the task in
his men.
Alone and unarmed he is recognised by a Bishop who orders his
men-at-arms to capture, Robin, alive or dead.
Robin is herded to the open road ad seeks sanctuary in a
cottage.
The Bishop takes a prisoner and
Robin takes his gold.
Friar Tuck and Much set off
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 9
Sir Guy of Gisbourne accuses Friar Tuck of aiding Maid Marion’s escape and swords are drawn.
The minstrel Alan-a-Dale reveals his part in the plot.
The Druid wedding ceremony of The Lord of the Woods and The Lady Queen of the May begins on top of the
Hemlock Stone.
Guy of Gisbourne demonstrates his skill with a bow and slays two innocents and
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 10
Marion and Robin are being married in Edwinstowe Church by Friar Tuck when armed knights pour into the church. It is King Richard, home from the Holy Land come to see his ward,
Marion Fitzwalter married.
The
King grants a pardon to Robin and his men and bids them to settle in the village of Basford.
Robin Hood tries his hand as a goose girl, and he and Little John rescue some women from an inn. |
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 11
Friar Tuck, Little John and
Robin Hood are fishing for their breakfast when two young boys try to steal the fish. They are treated to breakfast and reveal how their parents have been arrested by the Sheriff’s
men because they recognised a stolen horse one of the soldiers was riding.
In their quest to seek out the
truth Robin and Little John are fighting for their lives when the Sheriff rides to their aid.
A truce is agreed and Little
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 13
When Robin Hood and Little John meet at the devastated village
of Retford and witness the tyranny that has all but broken the spirit of the community, it becomes apparent that the Sheriff has abandoned his pledge of fairness made but eighteen
months ago. Even more puzzling is that helping the Sheriff’s men were two who claimed to be, Robin Hood and Little John.
Had they known that their old enemy Sir Guy of Gisbourne had
returned they may have suspected the carefully planned trap he and the Sheriff of Nottingham had prepared for them.
By nightfall Robin Hood would either be dead or be made an
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 14 |
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 15 |
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The Lord Of The Woods: Episode 16 |
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