Forgotten Rites Publishing produces two kinds of books: mythology-rooted fiction and practical nonfiction for Irish Pagan practitioners. Sometimes those lines blur. They’re supposed to.
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Donald Quill
The Scáthach Cycle
Mythic historical fiction — in progress
Set in the shadowed landscape of ancient Ireland, The Scáthach Cycle follows the legendary warrior across the arc of her life — the training ground, the price of power, and the mythology that outlasted her. For readers who want the mythology to mean something.
The Salt Between Stones — A free prequel story set before Woman of Shadows. The best starting point if you want to step into Scáthach’s world before Book 1. Get it free →
Book 1: Woman of Shadows — Before she became legend, she had to survive the making of herself. Scáthach is not yet the warrior feared across the Celtic world. When betrayal and brutality tear away the life she was meant to inherit, she must decide what she is willing to sacrifice. The brutal, grounded origin of a myth.
Songs of the Crowmother
Celtic fantasy trilogy
Ancient Ireland at the edge of collapse. Something called the Hollowed — later the Perfected — is spreading across the land, offering peace and prosperity at the cost of individual will. Queens, priests, warriors, and an immortal guardian must decide what consciousness is actually worth.
Book 1: Echoes of the Otherworld — Ríona, High Priestess of the Morrígan, is called to retrieve the Heartstone of Danu and must travel beyond the veil to do it. In the last years of the old gods, the line between Ireland and the Otherworld is starting to give way.
Available in paperback, signed paperback, and complete audiobook editions.
Book 2: Broken Rites — The Lia Fáil has vanished from Tara. Its absence severs the spiritual bond that unites the island’s kingdoms, and in the silence left behind, an ancient corruption begins to rise. The Hollowed don’t conquer land. They convert consciousness.
Book 3: Ash and Feather — Twelve years after the Hollowed War, Queen Medb has returned with the Perfected. Ainé, daughter of High Queen Neassa, is the one person who can sense the infection spreading through Tara’s heart. The gods have chosen her for a war no one else believes has already begun.
Irish Wheel of the Year
Nonfiction for Irish Pagan practitioners
Three decades of practice, put into writing. These aren’t general Pagan books with Celtic names swapped in. They’re for practitioners who want to engage seriously with the Irish tradition: its mythology, its sacred landscape, its theology, its actual history.
Living the Irish Wheel of the Year — The core guide. All eight festivals of the Irish calendar, extensive chapters on working with Irish deities including Brigid, the Dagda, Lugh, the Mórrígan, and Mananán mac Lir, and substantial practical guidance for modern practitioners in the diaspora.
The Spring Equinox: Balance Beneath the Blossoms — An expanded companion to the vernal equinox. Mythology of Aengus Óg, Boann, and Danu. Archaeology of Loughcrew’s Cairn T. Irish folk customs, ritual, inner work, altar guidance, seasonal recipes.
Beltane: Fire at the Threshold — A 46,000-word companion to the largest festival of the Irish Pagan year. The mythology of the Dagda and the Mórrígan at the ford. Sacred landscape including Uisneach and Tara. The hawthorn, the need-fire, folk custom from across Ireland and Scotland, ritual for solitary and group practice.
Summer Solstice: The Sun at Its Turning — An expanded companion to the Irish summer solstice. The mythology of Grian and Áine, Lugh at the height of his ascent. Archaeology of Loughcrew and Drombeg. The longest days and the six weeks between solstice and Lughnasadh.
Lughnasadh: The First Harvest — The first harvest of the Irish Pagan year is not a simple celebration of golden fields and full tables. At the heart of the season stands Tailtiu, whose labor made the harvest possible, and Lugh, who established the games and gathering in her honor.
The Mórrígan: War, Sovereignty, and the Shadow of Ireland — A deep examination of the Mórrígan in Irish mythology, folklore, and modern devotional practice. The medieval Irish material read closely for what it does and does not contain: war as consequence, sovereignty as relationship, prophecy at the edge of time.
The Ashburn Foundation Files
Supernatural horror
The House on Ashburn Street — Dana Wilder is four years sober, has custody of her kids back, and just moved into a 19th-century colonial in New England. What’s living at 47 Ashburn Street has been there longer than the foundation stones. A supernatural horror novel about recovery, family, and what it means to fight an entity that views human consciousness as a disease.
The Bones Beneath the Maple — When the Ashburn Foundation receives a report from the Campbell property in New Hampshire, it sounds like another residual haunting. But Cass Brightwell knows better. Book Two of the Ashburn Foundation Files. Pre-order — Available September 4, 2026.
D.R. Quill
Oaths of Steel and Shadow
Viking romantasy series
Norse mythology. Dark romance. The kind of story where the gods actually show up and the price they ask is real.
Blade and Bone: Oath of Steel and Shadow — Astrid Bjørnsdottir died on a battlefield. Freyja brought her back with a mission: infiltrate Erik Bloodaxe’s hall, steal back a god-forged weapon, return it to Asgard before the draugr consume the Nine Realms. The plan was simple. Feel nothing. But Freyja bound their souls together so Astrid could find Erik’s weakness — and instead the bond showed her the truth. A slow-burn Viking romantasy rooted in authentic Norse tradition.
Iron & Ash — Book Two of Oaths of Steel and Shadow. In development.
Jess Dalton
Contemporary Women’s Fiction
F.I.N.E.: Fucked Up · Insecure · Neurotic · Emotional — For years, Claire had one answer for everything. She was fine. Fine after the marriage ended. Fine when her daughter stopped answering late-night calls. Fine when the wine became vodka. Two years sober and still learning how to live inside her own skin, she meets Daniel at a recovery conference in Dewey Beach. He doesn’t offer rescue. He offers something more dangerous: the possibility of being seen.