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Mordred, Bastard Son (The Chronicles of Mordred Book 1)
Traitor. Exile. Lover of Men.
“My mother is the Witch-Queen Morgan le Fay and my father, King Arthur. Merlin foretold that if a son like me were born to Arthur, his kingdom would be destroyed. By birthright, I am heir to the throne stolen from my mother…†In this spellbinding novel of dangerous magic and burning desire, Mordred’s first forbidden passion for the greatest knight of his father’s kingdom leads him to break the most sacred law and betray his own people…sending him on a treacherous journey from which few have ever returned.
A twist on the Camelot legends from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Douglas Clegg, the first in a projected series. Genres: Arthurian fantasy, LGBT, MM historical fantasy, medieval fantasy.
Reviews of Mordred, Bastard Son
*Starred Review* “Riveting…Clegg puts an inspired wrinkle in the hoary tale of Arthur and the grail by casting Arthur’s kindred enemy, Mordred, as a gay man. An injured stranger in a cloak and odd, paganish mask, is captured and held in a monastery, igniting wild speculation among the locals, who believe him a notorious traitor. And so he is. He is Mordred, the bastard son of Arthur Pendragon and his half sister, the witch-queen Morgan Le Fay, and he now awaits trial for murder and treason…How excellent.†– Booklist.
Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg – Arthurian fantasy, historical fantasy, legend“Douglas Clegg’s stunning Mordred, Bastard Son will inspire and refresh…†– Michael Rowe, Advocate Magazine.
“Clegg (The Priest of Blood) maintains a nice balance between the human and mythic dimensions of his characters, portraying the familiar elements of their story from refreshingly original angles.†– Publishers Weekly.
“Well-crafted. Written in lyrical prose with colorful characters and historical depth. Lovers of both history and fantasy will discover…an enchanting read.†– Edge Boston.
“Clegg beautifully skewers the Arthurian legends, weaving a compelling story, single-handedly reinventing Mordred’s sexuality. He is no longer the betrayer of Arthur, the knight Lancelot, and Guinevere, Queen of the Britons; he is now the seductive and passionate hero, a lover of men given the almost insurmountable task of finding the cauldron of rebirth…†– Michael Leonard, Curled Up with a Good Book Blog.
“…Magic—true magic that really works—takes center stage in…Mordred, Bastard Son…a refreshing return to the myth and magic of the legends…Clegg’s approach recalls Sir Thomas Mallory, Chrétien de Troyes, and even Edmund Spenser at times; his setting is never made temporally explicit but rather melds Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and high medieval British elements.†– Strange Horizons.
Discover Douglas Clegg's fiction:
Lights Out
Neverland
The Children’s Hour
The Halloween Man
You Come When I Call You
The Hour Before Dark
Nightmare House
Mischief
The Infinite
The Abandoned
Isis
The Necromancer
Goat Dance
Breeder
Afterlife
Purity
Dark of the Eye
The Words
Wild Things
Bad Karma
Red Angel
Night Cage
Naomi
The Nightmare Chronicles
The Attraction
Night Asylum
The Priest of Blood
The Lady of Serpents
The Queen of Wolves
Dinner with the Cannibal Sisters
Mordred, Bastard Son