The Messenger of the Ground

Two years after the events of The Standing Ground, the tiny outpost of Y Tir in North Wales becomes a refuge for those who want to live without implants—permanent links to government surveillance that are threatening to dominate people's lives again. But can Alys, Luke and Emrys thwart the growing threats of the new tech-giants whose offers of enhanced memories and virtual lives mask the erosion of privacy and even humanity?

As new enemies threaten Y Tir's existence, and old enemies emerge to sew seeds of destruction, Alys' and Luke's lives are put under increasing pressure. But there are also allies, not least Alys' and Luke's daughter, Iris, who appears to have fallen out of the mists of Greek legend and into Celtic myth. Can Iris, more strange and powerful even than Myrddin Emrys, also known as Merlin, save the day for Y Tir?

Jan Fortune is a writer, mentor and herbalist living in a forest in Finistère. She has a doctorate in feminist theology and is the founding editor of Cinnamon Press. Jan has taught writing courses across Europe and mentors writers across several genres. Her previous publications include creative non-fiction on writing, Writing Down Deep, plus poetry collections and novels, most recently the poetry pamphlet, At world's end, begin, the novel smiling at grief in a house in a forest where life grows and her memoir, at the heart's farthest edge.
Jan writes at the intersection of story, poetry and herbalism. You can follow her weekly essays on her website Terrain, where she offers a community for those exploring writing and the animate world (Alchemical Gatherings), a monthly meeting to explore herbalism in daily life (Triskelewell) and runs the yearly writing community, Kith: for a different story.
Find out more at https://terrain.estate/