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The Lia Fáil, the stone of destiny and symbol of the land’s sovereignty, has vanished from Tara. Its absence severs the spiritual bond that unites the island’s kingdoms and casts Ireland into uncertainty. No High King can be chosen. No future can be secured. And in the silence left behind, an ancient corruption begins to rise.
Across the island, a force known as the Hollowed spreads from one sacred site to the next. Druids speak with empty voices as their wills dissolve into a collective mind that promises peace at the cost of identity. Villagers wake changed, their songs and laughter replaced with talk of efficiency, output, and order. Beauty is fading. Memory is thinning. Choice itself is under attack.
Neassa, High Priestess of Tara, feels the sacred network weakening in her bones. When Ríona, the immortal guardian marked by the gods, returns from exile with warnings of a darkness older than Ireland’s tribes, Neassa knows the crisis is no mere political fracture. A spiritual extinction is underway.
Their fight draws in allies who understand the cost of resisting overwhelming power: Boudica, the exiled queen of Britannia, and Cathair, a reluctant leader whose bloodline carries the memories of kings.
What they face is not an army of flesh, but a slow and beautiful dissolution of what makes life worth living. The Hollowed do not conquer land. They convert consciousness.
Broken Rites is Book Two of the Songs of the Crowmother trilogy. For readers of The Mists of Avalon, The Priory of the Orange Tree, and The Mabinogion.
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