The Bone Road by Mary Holland
A divvy, a dying woman, and a promise
Rhona has the divvy gift; she can see who is fertile and who is a cursed and outcast Shun. The people of the Deom depend on the divvys for survival, but it is a hard and brutal gift. As long as Rhona’s mother was alive, Rhona had followed the old ways, but now her mother is dead and Rhona is free. She has one last promise to fulfill: to find her mother’s friend Selina and help her.
Rhona finds Selina, only to become enmeshed in Selina’s vengeance against the body-stealing Rider, who has destroyed Selina’s son. Selina’s plan fails and she dies. Or does she? With the Rider pursuing her, Rhona flees across the land of Deo, desperate to keep her word and hide the one thing that might destroy the Rider. Rhona, her son Jak, her lover Matteo the Shun, and the strange girl called Aniles work together to discover the secrets of the Rider — and the true nature of the land of Deo.
September 28th, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Masterful world building and storytelling!
Looking forward to listening to story’s by Mary Holland.
September 30th, 2012 at 2:10 am
Congratulations. Matcher Rules was very good. Bone Road is terrific! The scenes with young “Annie” was some of the most engaging writing i’ve read/heard in a while. Your reading has also stepped up from Matcher too. I’m on episode 19 but I just wanted to say how much i’m enjoying this so far. Thank you!
September 30th, 2012 at 4:11 am
I am so glad you are enjoying it. I learned a lot doing Matcher Rules, and I tried very hard to improve. And there’s nothing like a new microphone to up the quality.
October 3rd, 2012 at 1:56 pm
I also, like others here, enjoyed Matcher Rules, but I have to say Bone Road was captivating! Well it was for me at least. I love how we got to watch the characters develop and I felt like I better understood why they made the decisions they choose. I really cared about what happened to the main characters in the story and what would become of their world. Hope to hear more from you Ms. Holland!!!
October 16th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
The Bone Road is vivid, believable, imaginative, complete.
The characters seem real enough to have lived next door.
The motivations seem real enough to have happened next door, too !
This is a really nice piece of work.
And, this makes it a complete package = Mary has a very easy to listen to voice.
I am anxiously waiting for her next release . . .
– AndrewO, in San Jose California
( Oh, how I wish I could craft a story half as good as this ! )
October 16th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Wow. Well, you made my day. Also, my week and month. I am so happy you enjoyed it.