The Summer Queen - The Bloodsong Series, #1

Strange things are happening in Muriel Grayson's safe, plodding routine of eat-sleep-work-repeat. Not just strange. Unusual. Transforming. She's hearing the clarion call of adventure. Leaving her job and old name behind, she revisits a dream of becoming an archaeologist, byapplying to attend a summer dig in coastal Yorkshire. Led by the British poster boy forarchaeology, Jack Shepherd, the dig is trying to locate a bronze age burial site.
The newlynamed Samantha Grayson arrives on site and is immediately at odds with Jack Shepherd overthe dig location. Through studying local folklore, myth and legend, Samantha's adventure becomes a personalodyssey, an obsession to find the burial site on her own. Along the way she makes new friendsand finds allies in her quest. She uncovers her courage, her self-belief and undergoesemotional shifts and spiritual experiences that are so profound and closely entwined, she nolonger sees any separation between them. And on one, truly magical afternoon, amongst the sand dunes, the truth is revealed.