Amused

Since we finished my particular story, I have wondered what Jen would choose to work on next. She has a wide variety of ideas that could go any number of ways.

I wondered if she would go back to straight fantasy, which she started out writing and which she still likes to read.

She is not.

I wondered if she would go with one of the ideas she has for a romance story set in your modern times.

Again, she is not.

What is she doing?

She is starting another story on my family. This one is set to feature my however-many-times-great-grandson (her wording, not mine) Sean. Indeed, 'tis the same Sean as who used to haunt the west tower.

I cannot adequately explain it. I will copy something Jen said about it here instead.

Sean Maguire is the new duke of Beinn. He has memories of a previous “life” but he had never been actually born. He was the ghost who had haunted the west tower 100 years before. In this actual life, he will be forced to marry the MacDermott’s clan-chief’s daughter in order to (hopefully) stop the fighting/raiding between those two clans and their allies.

Aidan MacDermott is considered a witch in her clan, which has mostly gone over to the new religion (Christianity). What better way to get rid of her than to marry her off to a “heathen” clan? She’s psychic (not a witch) but largely follows the new religion herself until she spends some time in the Maguire stronghold.

I do not like the idea of any in my family, in my clan, marrying the enemy. I wish I did not have to stand for it. But 'tis not my choice to make. I can see the wisdom in such a decision, but that does not mean I have to like it.

Be well.