Songs of the Oaks is a historical fiction series about a gifted pagan priestess with a mission to rid Britannia of Roman oppressors in the mid 1st century of the Common Era.
Series potential titles:
Danann Exodus - A remarkable prodigy becomes a talented pagan priestess but when she confronts the king she must flee her world.
Danann Diaspora - Beginning as a minister to her faithful, the priestess moves on with a larger vision.
Danann Apostle - Struggling against an insidious new faith she soon conflicts with Rome.
Danann - Seeing the world in a new light, the inevitable crisis explodes.
Danann Apocalypse - The priestess returns to her home now changed forever.
About the author: R.B. Skadowski is an amateur historian who finds "accepted" history unconvincing. Peppered with "alternate facts", this series irreverently recasts the Roman invasion of Britain and the ill-fated rebellion of Boudicca as a fiction. Who really knows what happened 2,000 years ago in the thick oak forests choking the Midlands of Britannia? Perhaps it happened differently than we read in the dusty old manuscripts that mysteriously survived the dark ages and centuries of tyranny of the religious monasteries. Did old monks, bored with praying all day, make it all up?
And who were the Clan Danann? A fictional clan of ancient Eire settled around the Hill of Tara. As the descendants of the Tuatha de Danann, the legendary gods of folk lore, they have sustained the Eireann monarchy for centuries. Known to be magicians backed by the Ard-Ri, the high king, the other clans have feared challenging them. The Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of Invasions) a ninth century medieval manuscript chronicles their origin and fate ten centuries later.
Who was Boudicca? An actual historical figure that rebelled against the abuses of the Roman invaders in 61 CE. Her rebel army leveled three Roman towns before being defeated by the occupiers. Or so says, Tacitus, a political pundit, today cast as a historian.
And who were the druids? With obscure links to ancient Egyptian and perhaps even mythical Atlantean culture, their footprints can be followed back to the Wisdom religions of the ancient east up to the present day. Perhaps the faithful are not found in today's churches and temples but in the universities and laboratories that mold us and our culture through technology. These ancients guided western civilization. What if they are still with us?