In the world of Malku, the clans of faes, merfolk, and ordinary landfolk live in a tenuous harmony. Oftentimes, one clan will war against another. Fae against mer, fae against landfolk, landfolk against mer. Because the Malku world contains many regions, nations, land masses, and islands, the relationship between these clans differ from region to region. There is also a variety of religions, races, and classes which also complicate the relationships of individuals and societies.
The annals of Malku are historical lore from many different regions; written in different languages, by different scribes, for varied purposes. To warn, to instruct, to explain. They contain the wisdom, romances, and tales of the kings, priests, and commonfolk of all those that dwell in Malku lands. The stories in this volume come from several countries in Malku. The primary story, Turn Back O Time, is a novella which tells the story of how Prince Eirik and the fae warred against the aristocrats of that land.
Other stories include the story of how the fae prince Flight saved his god-daughter from a wrongful marriage, the tale of a betrayed mermaid in The Girl in the Dim, and the story of the beginnings of the DragonFly Islands. This book is part of a series which will include other annals such as the tales of SeaWalker, The Charcoal Bride, and Who Gave Sleep and Who Has Taken It Away?, a novel set in a more modern Malku world. Carole McDonnell is a writer of Christian, supernatural, and ethnic stories.
She writes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and reviews. Her novels are: Wind Follower, My Life as an Onion, The Constant Tower, Who Gave Sleep and Who Has Taken It Away?, The Daughters of Men, and The Charcoal Bride. She is currently working on the following novels: A Town for Timothy (set in the Brothersworth universe which features the novels, My Life as an Onion, and Black Girls Have Always Loved Cowboys), SeaWalker, (set in the Malku universe), and The Chimeran Queen, (which is set in the Daughters of Men's Nephilim Dystopian universe.)Her story collections are Spirit Fruit: Collected Speculative Fiction by Carole McDonnell and Turn Back O Time and other stories of the fae of Malku.
Her Scriptures books include Blogging the Psalms, A Fool's Journey Through Proverbs, The Christian Laws of Attraction, The Dignity of Emotions: Ruminations on the Miracles of Our Lord, among others. Her book of Poetry is: The King's Journal of Lost and Secret ThingsShe lives in New York with her husband, two sons, and their pets.