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the basic story idea for this book is great, the mere mountain of words explaining every thought, sight and historical fact made it impossible to follow the actual plot.


Read full review in the sitelinkMarch issue of InDtale Magazine, Ghosts and Scotland go together,

Whats that oftquoted, ancient Caledonian prayer “From goulies and ghosties and longleggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night, good Lord, deliver us!” A sensible sentiment to most.


Writers, on the other hand, welcome them, Supernatural stories always find an audience, and historical fiction author Linda Root writing here under the pen name J, D. Root has come up with a stonking good one, as the Brits would say, Thea Jameson, a bestselling California author hawking her latest historical novel on a promo trip to Scotland, inexplicably timeslips back toand gets tangled up with the axewielding clan Kerr, and a mysterious entity called the “Green Woman.
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Our heroine “a cross between Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie” is a sassy, middleaged, harddrinking, Amex Gold cardtoting divorcee who travels around with a bottle of Jamesons, a pocket flask of V.
S. O. P, and a fifth of Glen Livet, and happily pub crawls with rugby players, Drunks propositioning her she can handle shes taken selfdefense lessons from the LAPD, and holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
The dead are another question, Returning inebriated to Ferniehirst Castle, the site of her imminent booklaunch party, the bewildered Thea finds the castles Great Hall filled with Border reivers strutting around with daggers at their belts, women busy with needlework.
Delirium tremens A theme wedding An evening bash of the local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism Fleeing up a back stairs which suspiciously wasnt there before, she bumps into the specter of Sir Andrew “Dand” Ker d.
who instantly takes a strong liking to her showing a “cow cumber in his britches,” as the quaint Scots saying goes and our time traveler is swept backwards four centuries, into his arms, and into the adventures of the Kerrs of Ferniehirst, Catholic allies of the tragic Mary Queen of Scots.


Its a demonhaunted era, and Root deftly exploits some of the more promising material, Dands cousin, the Earl of Bothwell, pops up repeatedly throughout the story, “Wild Frank” Stewartenjoyed a reputation as a warlock, and inwas arrested and accused of employing sorcery in an attempt to knock off Scotlands King James VI fact, not fiction.
James VI bequeathed us the famous “King James” version of the Bible, the most widely printed book in history, Less known, His Highness also considered himself an expert on witchcraft, penned anpage treatise on demonology, and was personally involved in the infamous North Berwick Witch Trials which led to the torture and in some cases, execution ofplus victims.
The “Green Lady” herself predates theth century references can be traced back to preChristian Celtic folklore, Nowadays, the Scottish Tourism Board promotes a halfdozen castles haunted by a green ghost, but Root cleverly imagines for this nowgardenvariety discarnate a complex, mythological backstory which will send readers scrambling for their Bulfinchs.


Root originally wrote “The Green Woman” in three weeks as an exercise for theNaNoWritMo National Novel Writing Month contest it challenges authors to come up with a,word novel in one month.
Besides pulling off that rather remarkable feat, she managed to slip into her genrebusting fantasy a final plot twist which caught me completely by surprise.


Halloween is coming soon, My suggestion Instead of plopping yourself down on the sofa and watching stale, Hollywood horror flicks this Oct,, download “The Green Woman” and enjoy a Scottish spooking,
When historical novelist Thea Jameson travels to the old Scottish borders to the site of her latest novel for a book launch, she has a sense of being followed.
Once she is settled in her accommodations and begins to explore what she believes will be a vacant facility, things are not as they should be.
She is a writer who exhaustively researches her sites, and the interior of the castle is inconsistent withth Century renovations.
Although she had been told that the castle was not open to the public until later in the week when the others in her entourage are scheduled to arrive, she hears voices in the Great Hall, and encounters what she believes to be a meeting of either the Society of Creative Anachronism or the medievalist reenactment group Regia Anglorum.
In retreating to her room, she encounters a man on the stairs, He is dressed as a reiver and his crude manners match his dress, He speaks to her provocatively in lowland Scots and makes a teasing reference to her as The Green Woman, the castle's notorious ghost.
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Thea eventually finds her room, she convinces herself that he was referring to her green Natori caftan and the effects of the greenish glow from the recessed lighting in the stairs and blames her uneasiness on too much ale at dinner.
But on the following morning, she has a second encounter with a man who has been dead for four hundred years and who thinks she is the ghost, the first in a of chain of confrontations leaving Thea convinced she either has been administered a mind altering drug or trapped within a lucid dream.

While Thea seeks an answer to her altered mental state, in the bowels of the old cellars the spirit of its Otherworldly Guardian is aroused from the complacency of sleep by a sense of impending evil, a force which threatens not just Thea'sst Century world, but events inth Century Britain and ultimately, the Cosmic Balance.
While Thea confronts her own devils, the man on the stairs is awakened to a need to protect his castle from the dynastic aspirations of the Wizard Earl of Bothwell, and the Guardian in her aspect as the daemon Nemesis the Avenger prepares for battle on a Cosmic scale with her Otherworldly brother Erebus, in order to restore balance in the world.
In an adventure which must either be a lucid dream or an onset of madness, Thea finds herself drawn into a world no writer could create, as her attraction to a dead man and her relationship to a daemon create an alternate reality that defies her understanding of Present, Past and Future, and in which the only time is The Now.

Novelist Root deviates from the traditional historical genre of her previous five books in a story evolving from the adrenalin rush of the annual NaNoWriMo competition in Novemberinto a full length stand alone novel that she finds uncharacteristic of her other writing, with a subtle sensuousness bordering on the erotic and a hint of fantasy noir.
She offers The Green woman and its progeny under the pseudonym J, D. Root.
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