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The Forgotten Kingdom (The Lost Queen #2) Author: Signe Pike Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Atria Release Date: 2020 Pages: 489 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: From the author of The Lost Queen , a new novel in which a forgotten queen of 6th-century Scotland claims her throne as war looms and her family is scattered to the winds. AD 573. Imprisoned in her chamber, Languoreth awaits news in torment. Her husband and son have ridden off to war against her brother, Lailoken. She doesn’t yet know that her young daughter, Angharad, who was training with Lailoken to become a Wisdom Keeper, has been lost in the chaos. As one of the bloodiest battles of early medieval Scottish history abandons its survivors to the wilds of Scotland, Lailoken and his men must flee to exile in the mountains of the Lowlands, while nine-year-old Angharad must summon all Lailoken has taught her to follow her own destiny through the mysterious, mystical land of the P...

The Lost Queen Author: Signe Pike Genre:  Historical Fiction Publisher: Atria Books Release Date: 2018 Pages: 545 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Compared to Outlander and The Mists of Avalon , this thrilling first novel of a debut trilogy reveals the untold story of Languoreth—a forgotten queen of sixth-century Scotland—twin sister of the man who inspired the legend of Merlin.      I write because I have seen the darkness that will come. Already there are those who seek to tell a new history...     In a land of mountains and mist, tradition and superstition, Languoreth and her brother Lailoken are raised in the Old Way of their ancestors. But in Scotland, a new religion is rising, one that brings disruption, bloodshed, and riot. And even as her family faces the burgeoning forces of Christianity, the Anglo-Saxons, bent on colonization, are encroaching from the east. When conflict brings the hero Emrys Pen...