I'm proud to say that Karla Tipton is a fellow author at Lazy Day Publishing.
Anise Wynford is playing the king's wife in Shakepeare's play
THE TRAGEDY OF RICHARD III at a Massachusetts summer stock theater. The 22-year
old falls on the porch step of her dead father's
farmhouse after finding a mysterious journal and an ancient gold ring.
Suddenly she's in armor and on a bucking horse, in the middle of a medieval battle.
She has slipped out of time through the magic of the ring, and next she appears
as a mysterious lady in the dream of
Richard III, who is suffering from depression, guilt, and loneliness following the deaths of his wife and son.
Despite his proven ability as a warrior, he is doubting his ability to face
Henry Tudor.
History is written by the winners. Shakespeare wrote in the age of the Tudors,
who owed their throne to Henry Tudor's vanquishing of his cousin, Richard III,
in 1485. In Karla Tipton's version of
the last few months of Richard III's reign, Richard was no crookback, nor did he
have a withered arm, and he was anything but an ambitious butcher incapable of love.
If anything, he was love's fool, refusing to take off his wife's ring after
her death and therefore exposing himself to the sorcery of a wizard, a former Welsh monarch bent on
revenge.
The book's title brings to mind rites of passage, wedding rings, and even Lord of the Rings. In this case, it refers to a set of rings
creating a passage out of time. They were
forged from the Philosopher's stone by the Welsh sorcerer, who, as the story
unfolds, hovers between worlds, waiting
for another necromancer to bring him back to life and crown Henry Tudor.
The author went to
England to research the truth about Richard III, the much maligned king who was
toppled from the throne after only two years. The time-travel romance between a modern-day, American drama student and a medieval English monarch who is about to die
on the battlefield seems doomed from the
start. But the author deftly weaves revisionist history and a fantasy plot, moving toward an ingenious HEA . The
events take place over several months prior to the battle of Bosworth Field in
August, 1485. They are covered in scrupulous detail as the action zooms from the fumbling sorcerers to the traitors and loyalists in the king's retinue
to the heroine's 21st century family history, connected, through the ancient ring, to the
story out of time.
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