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Teresa Edgerton is the Fantasy author of eight novels and a few short stories. She writes Fantasy with a Celtic flavor, some swashbuckling adventure and now Epic Fantasy. For more information check out my previous article Misssing Treasure: Teresa Edgerton. She has not had any books out for a while, but will have a new Fantasy book out in July with The Queen's Necklace.
Teresa Edgerton: The books that make up The Green Lion Trilogy -- Child of Saturn, The Moon in Hiding, and The Work of the Sun -- my literary first-born, are very near to my heart. I've been told that there is a dreamlike quality to these books, which is not surprising -- they came almost directly out of my daydreams, as well as my interest in Arthurian legends and alchemical symbolism. I was entirely absorbed and bewitched by the story; the characters were so real to me, I think I lived more in their world, with them, than I did in the real world with the real people that I knew. As a result, there is an emotional intensity in those books that I may never be able to achieve again. Teleri is an apprentice wizard. Her fear of growing up, assuming responsibility, taking her place in the world, causes her to be literally frozen in time. She just stops at twelve years old, physically, mentally, and emotionally, and stays there for six years. Then she meets Ceilyn, who serves as a catalyst, and she begins to change. She goes from twelve to nineteen in about a year, which is just where she should be, but the transformation is terrifying to her. Ceilyn has his own fears, his own guilt, his own secrets. Everyone imagines that he is the perfect young knight, but he believes he is under a terrible curse, that he is being punished for some sin that he committed before he was even old enough to know what he was doing. The "curse" is really an inborn shapechanging ability; it causes him to take on the form of a grey wolf whenever certain influences come into play. As a result, he believes that he has to make a practically superhuman effort to be perfect at everything, in order to become fully human, in order to be like everyone else. My second high fantasy trilogy --The Castle of the Silver Wheel, The Grail and the Ring, and The Moon and the Thorn -- begins where most fairy tales leave off. There is a rescue and a wedding, and the hero is given lands to rule, but what follows is not exactly happily ever after. Tryffin and Gwenlliant not only have to overcome their personal and romantic problems, but there is a heavy fate laid upon them, an ancient family mystery that has to be solved. The further back they follow the clues, the more they realize they are part of a story that began a long, long time ago, and that actions -- both good and bad -- that occurred a thousand years in their past are still resonating in their own time. There is a curse in this book, as well, but it is a curse on an entire region, an entire people, which comes through a violation of the ancient covenant between a ruler and the land itself.
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