Can I read Ring of flowers : the untold prologue for the Calypso directive on EtoBox?

Ring of flowers : the untold prologue for the Calypso directive by Brian Andrews [Andrews, Brian] is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ring of flowers : the untold prologue for the Calypso directive about?

Ring of Flowers is a Novella (only 46 pages) and is a companion piece to the full length novel The Calypso Directive, written by the same author... In 1665, in the Derbyshire village of Eyam, the tailor, George Vicars orders a bolt of fabric from London to make a wedding dress for his betrothed daughter, Kathryn. To escape her fate of marrying the town's wealthiest and most odious bachelor, she elopes with her true love, farmhand Paul Foster. Kathryn's departure is fortuitous, because when the fabric is delivered, the parcel is infested with fleas carrying bubonic plague. First bitten and first to die, George Vicars' misfortune becomes the community's death sentence when the town Rector boldly imposes a quarantine on all Eyam residents. Months later, expecting a child, the newlyweds return home to find their world turned upside down. Once inside the township, they are forbidden to leave and Kathryn is forced to give birth in quarantine. Under the shadow plague, and against all odds, Will Foster's paternal ancestor is born . . . with a genetic mutation that will change the world 345 years later.From the AuthorNOTE TO THE READER: Ring of Flowers was originally a historical subplot th

Author

Brian Andrews [Andrews, Brian]

Publisher

Arcade Pub. : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780553897821

Subjects

Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction