Journey into an 8th Century Britain that might have been . . .
Set in early medieval Britain following the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Books One, Three, Four, and Five of the Druid Chronicles follow the last members of a once influential pagan cult as they venture out of their valley sanctuary into a world where Druids, once revered as healers, poets, and oracles, are now reviled as wizards and witches. Book Two begins a generation earlier and recounts the events that set the main story in motion
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The Oath
Published
June 15, 2021
In the wake of a betrayal that threatens to end their way of life, the high priestess of a secretive Druid shrine sends her young consort on a desperate mission.
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The Valley
Published
June 28, 2022
The Valley, is the story of a young priest’s boyhood and coming of age as mounting conflicts within his cult’s highest ranks tear at the fabric of a society that has endured for more than a millennium.
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The Sheriff
Published
May 14, 2024
A Saxon warrior returns from a series of hard-won battles only to be stripped of his command and sent to serve as the sheriff of a remote shire located in a fog-shrouded valley surrounded by dark forbidding mountains and teeming with rumors of ghosts, witches, and sorcerers.
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The Quarry
Published
December 4, 2025
Forced to flee their previous sanctuary, a small band of goddess-worshipping Britons reach a high mountain valley, believed to be the site of their cult’s ancestral home, to find its stone towers reduced to rubble. With only a matter of months before winter sets in, they face the all but impossible task of making habitable…
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The Challenge
Published
September 15, 2026
Stefan, once a Saxon warrior and now sheriff of Codswallow, has fought to reclaim his shire from the forces of his estranged wife. But peacetime brings its own reckoning, and Stefan finds himself unprepared for the challenges of parenthood. After a confrontation with his son exposes Stefan’s darkest emotional wounds, he impulsively rides off accompanied…
About the Author
Ann Margaret Linden was born in Seattle, Washington, but grew up on the East Coast before returning to the Pacific Northwest as a young adult. She has undergraduate degrees in anthropology and in nursing and a master’s degree as a nurse practitioner. After working in a variety of acute care and community health settings, she took a position in a program for children with special health care needs where her responsibilities included writing a variety of program related materials. The Druid Chronicles began as a somewhat whimsical decision to write something for fun and ended up becoming a lengthy journey that involved Linden taking adult education creative writing courses, researching early British history, and traveling to England, Scotland, and Wales. Now retired from nursing, she lives with her husband in the northwest corner of Washington State where she is active in a local writers’ group as well as continuing as an advocate for children and adults with special needs.