Colleen Avelli, author

"The folds of time are thin and fragile...often the past, present and future meld into one."

 

                         The Pendragon...

     Avelli is currently working on The Pendragon, wherein a new tier of Arthurian geneology is created.  Melding the true lineage of Uther Pendragon with elements of fantastic legend, Avelli has placed two characters from her first novel into the Pendragon lineage, thus offering a new twist for the rightful heir of England.  Inspired by the different viewpoints of such authors as Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Whyte, Mary Stewart and Stephen Lawhead,  Avelli has woven an elaborate version to describe the coming of the true High King.  

  The novel delves heavily into Celtic Lore and Arthurian Romance, exploring the realm of The Lady of the Lake,  Avalon, Merlin and Medieval England.  Research for the novel has allowed Avelli to delve into her own Celtic heritage and has illuminated her own path as intertwined with that of her characters’.  Avelli has mingled the novel with poetic verse to further her images to the reader. 

   A sneak preview into The Pendragon:

And so it happened that a priestess of Avalon caught  the eye of Merlin.  Her music intoxicated Merlin and thus he pursued her, and on the eve of Beltane, he loved her.  

    Gwyn caresses her swollen abdomen lovingly, proudly.  Inheriting the lineage of the Merlin and a priestess of Avalon, her child would carry a great power and a great burden.  This child, their daughter, would be the bearer of the High King; the one who would bring The Lady’s message into the world of men outside of Avalon; the one who world wear the sign to unite all men in a time when division and strife would be at its height.  This child would someday carry the Redeemer, the one who would bring Her word to those who had before been deaf to its meaning.

               Yet this was just a fold in the child’s life.  The folds of time would overlap and bring much more to her in this lifetime and in those to come, as it had to those that had already been.  The folds were unpredictable and quick to change.  All one could be certain of was the love between those who found each other in the quiet times of billowing, that this love and those bound together by it would last forever.

           And this, her child would find for herself.