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No part of this book may be reproduced or shared by any electronic or mechanical means, including but not limited to printing, file sharing, and email without prior written permission from Julia Ban. Tamara is one of the Barbarian pretty women. She was destined to be born on the planet of Barbaria, where people are still primitive and act like animals. She walks around half naked because she doesn't know what real clothes are. She climbs trees to get leaves and fruits to feed on. She doesn't think it is wrong to eat dead people when a famine strikes. Because of environmental and genetic mutation, the women of Barbaria were very alluring wild animals. The Tycoon's Barbarian slave book one by Julia Ban. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. 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A Scottish Dark Ages Romance. The Warrior Brothers of Skye. Your free starter library is waiting! Join me in 7th Century Anglo-Saxon England and receive a 30,000-word historical romance novella and two full-length novels. Immerse yourself in the Dark Ages! Historical Romances by Jayne Castel. DARK AGES BRITAIN. The Kingdom of the East Angles series. Night Shadows (prequel novella) Dark Under the Cover of Night (Book One) Nightfall till Daybreak (Book Two) The Deepening Night (Book Three) The Kingdom of the East Angles: The Complete Series. The Kingdom of Mercia series. The Breaking Dawn (Book One) Darkest before Dawn (Book Two) Dawn of Wolves (Book Three) The Kingdom of Northumbria series. The Whispering Wind (Book One) Wind Song (Book Two) DARK AGES SCOTLAND. The Warrior Brothers of Skye series. Blood Feud (Book One) Barbarian Slave (Book Two) He takes her as his war prize—but she enslaves his soul. Pict and Roman culture collide in this epic Historical Romance set in Dark Ages Scotland. Lucrezia is the wife of a Roman soldier posted on the northernmost reach of the Empire. Locked in an unhappy marriage upon a desolate outpost, she feels her youth slipping away. However, her life changes forever in the winter of 367 AD. Barbarians from the north band together and attack Hadrian's Wall. Tarl mac Muin is a Pict warrior with a thirst for battle and glory. He's part of the Barbarian Conspiracy that will change history. But when he takes Lucrezia as his slave, he sets off a chain of events that neither of them could have foreseen. In an epic adventure that starts at the Roman fort of Vindolanda at Hadrian's Wall and takes Lucrezia north to the wild shores of the Isle of Skye —she discovers love and happiness when she least expects it. Only, a shadow from the past risks ruining everything. All characters and situations in this publication are fictitious, and any resemblance to living persons is purely coincidental. Barbarian Slave by Jayne Castel. Copyright © 2018 by Jayne Castel. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the author. Published by Winter Mist Press. Edited by Tim Burton. Cover photography courtesy of www.shutterstock.com. Eagle image courtesy of www.pixabay.com. Maps of Scotland and Hadrian’s Wall courtesy of Wikipedia. Map of ‘The Winged Isle’ by Jayne Castel. ‘We are the weavers’ pagan chant by Shekhinah Mountainwater. Visit Jayne’s website and blog: www.jaynecastel.com. Follow Jayne on Twitter: @JayneCastel. For Tim—my true romantic. Maps of Scotland, The Winged Isle, and Hadrian’s Wall. Background notes for BARBARIAN SLAVE. Death and Destiny. The Soldier’s Wife. The Spoils of War. A Matter of Honor. All Hope is Gone. The Winged Isle. Tarl’s War Prize. In His Brother’s Shadow. Clearing the Air. The Right Moment. Are We to Be Enemies? Hunting with Hawks. Meeting in the Armory. The Valley of the Tors. The Reaper Comes. Spoiling for a Fight. Across the Threshold. More works by Jayne Castel. About the Author. Maps of Scotland, The Winged Isle, and Hadrian’s Wall. Background notes for BARBARIAN SLAVE. Aos Sí or Fair Folk: fairies. bandruí: a female druid or seer. Broch: a tall, round, stone-built, hollow-walled Iron Age tower-house. Caesars: the Ancient Romans. Cruthini: the name the mainland Picts gave to themselves. The Land of the Cruthini: Pictland. An t-Eilean Sgitheanach: Gaelic name for the Isle of Skye. Beinn na Caillich: the Red Hill of Skye. Dun Ardtreck: a broch located on the Minginish Peninsula of Skye. Dun Ringill: an Iron Age hill fort on the Strathaird Peninsula of Skye. Kyleakin: a village on the south-east edge of Skye. Vindolanda: fort on Hadrian’s Wall. The four tribes of The Winged Isle* The People of The Eagle (south-west) The People of The Wolf (north-west) The People of The Boar (south-east) The People of The Stag (north-east) Gods and Goddesses of The Winged Isle* The Mother: Goddess of enlightenment and feminine energy—the bringer of change. The Warrior: God of battle, life and growth, of summer. The Maiden: Young goddess of nature and fertility. The Hag: Goddess of the dark—sleep, dreams, death, winter, and the earth. The Reaper: God of death. Festivities on the Isle of Skye* Earth Fire: Salute to new life and the first signs of spring (February 1) Bealtunn: Spring Equinox. Mid-Summer Fire: Summer Equinox. Harvest Fire: Festival to salute the harvest (Aug 1) Gateway: Passage from summer to winter (October 31/November 1) Mid-Winter Fire: Winter Equinox. * Author’s note: I have taken ‘artistic license’ when it comes to the names of the tribes, festivities and gods and goddesses upon the Isle of Skye. The historical evidence is very scant, making it a challenge for me to get an accurate picture of what the names of the tribes living upon Skye during the 4th century would have been. Likewise, I could not find any references to their gods and festivities. The Picts were an en igmatic people, and we only have their ruins and symbols to cast light on how they lived and whom they worshipped. To make my setting as authentic as possible, I have studied the rituals and religions of the Celtic peoples of Scotland, Ireland and Wales of a similar period and have created a culture I feel could have existed. Cast of characters (in alphabetical order) Ailene: daughter of Mael and Maphon. Alpia: female Eagle warrior. Cal, Namet, Lutrin and Ru: Galan’s four most trusted warriors. Cassius Severus: general at Vindolanda. Deri: young woman married to Cal, one of Galan’s warriors. Donnel mac Muin: youngest brother of The Eagle chieftain. Eithni: Tea’s younger sister. Galan mac Muin: Eagle chieftain. Loxa: Wurgest’s younger brother. Luana: Donnel’s wife (deceased) Lucrezia: Roman woman. Macum: Eagle warrior. Mael: Luana’s sister (married to Maphan) Marcus Donatus: Lucrezia’s husband. Ruith: the seer at Dun Ringill. Talor: Luana and Donnel’s infant son. Tarl mac Muin: younger brother of The Eagle chieftain. Tea: Galan’s wife. Urcal: Wurgest’s elder brother, the Boar chieftain. Wurgest mac Wrad: Boar warrior. The future is not written in stone. It shifts like sand on the shore, like reeds in the wind. Every act in the present has the power to change it. —Ruith, bandruí of Dun Ringill. Death and Destiny. Winter, 367 AD—Pictland. Fifty furlongs north of Hadrian’s Wall. The wind had claws this evening. It whistled in from the north and gusted against the encampment of hide tents erected in the shallow vale.
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