Ken Kirk
The Fire Tree Series - Book 1
by Ken Kirk
'The Girl Who Could Disappear' is a historical fantasy novel set across centuries, following the mysterious connection between a young girl, Greesha, from the Isle of Man in 793, and Balgair McRory, a prisoner in 17th-century Scotland. The story weaves together time-travel, folklore, the realities of social hardship, themes of persecution, and the power of hope, as Greesha's uncanny abilities shape fates and echo throughout history.
Greesha is a dreamer. She dreams of the future and of the past. Her dreams, however, are incredibly vivid and astonishingly real. Slowly, the shocking truth dawns on her: The dreams she has feel like reality because they truly are reality.
When she starts to hear voices, she tries to ignore them, but the speaker will not be quiet. When, finally, she replies, she embarks on an astonishing adventure that will take her to places she had no idea existed.
Greesha was born on the island of Ellan Vannin in the Irish Sea (which will, one day, become known as The Isle of Man). She begins life as another hungry mouth to feed in a desperately poor family. As she grows, she develops gifts that risk her being accused of being a witch. There is only one consequence of such an accusation: That is death by burning.
In a moment of carelessness, while dreaming, Greesha accidentally saves someone’s life and, in doing so, fundamentally changes the history of Scotland. Can she make things right or will she be drawn, ever deeper, into a web of strange events?
Her intervention means that, when King James of Scotland becomes King James of England in 1603, there will still be a Queen of the Scottish Westlands and she will be a strong rallying point for the clans who live there.
A struggling author
I wanted to write a book for most of my life, but I failed miserably, over and over. Then, suddenly, it just happened. I made yet one more attempt to write a book and I ended up writing a dozen of the things! Ha! Ha! Ha!