[The Tales of Aeron 01] • The Copper Crown: A Novel of the Keltiad (Keltiad)

Drawing on Celtic legends, the tales of King Arthur, the history of Ireland, stories of Atlantis, and the vast body of lore about druids, the Triple Goddess, and the workings of magic, Patricia Kennealy has created a wondrous epic fantasy series that spans our ancient past and distant future.

For uncounted centuries, the star systems of Keltia have waited, safe behind their Curtain Wall, impregnable to attack by their two most hated enemies—the Imperium and the Phalanx, power-hungry empires that long for the final destruction of the Kelts. But now, at last, a new age has dawned for Keltia and Aeron, the queen of all the Kelts. For after three millennia, a ship has arrived from Earth, the second homeland, from which St. Brendan led his people forth when the priests came to Ireland with Patrick. In space, the Danaans and all who journeyed with them found a new life, a new haven—Keltia.

But now Earth has found them again. And now Aeron must decide for peace or for war. For if she greets Earth in friendship, seeking to renew ancient alliances, her enemies will swiftly gather at her gates, determined to put an end to the Kelts before Keltia and Earth can destroy them. Yet how, after all this time, can she deny her people’s past or turn away these distant kin, these Terrans?

And so destiny is about to be fulfilled, as the interstellar empires arm for war. And Aeron must now journey on the path of prophecy, forced to follow in the patterns spun by King Arthur himself long centuries past, undertaking a quest that may lose her a kingdom and the prince she loves or win her people the stars…

The Copper Crown introduces us to a world both new and yet disturbingly familiar, a place of castles and queens, of magic and ancient gods and goddesses, and of starships fighting over whole solar systems. Here the age-old forces of good and evil clash yet again as a diabolical emperor faces the beautiful, dangerous Keltic queen who may prove his ultimate nemesis.