The Song of the Hidden Land: The Woman Who Asked to Love Without Choice (A Celtic Romance Between Chains and Wings)
About this audiobook
A Celtic legend of love, memory, and fate
At the dawn of the 14th century, as Scotland burns in wars of independence and ancient clans are torn apart by loyalty and betrayal, two souls marked by exile meet at a crossroads of secrets and sorcery.
Aodhán Mac Darragh, a silent warrior and survivor of the Tùr na h-Oidhche massacre, has spent years hiding along the wild coasts of Ireland. His memory dissolves between cliffs and sea, but the land does not forget. Saorlaith, a healer with ancestral wisdom, knows the time has come: Aodhán must return to the home he fled from remembering.
Arianwen Ó Ceallaigh, daughter of a noble lineage, has lived under the weight of others’ decisions. On her way to a marriage that will seal her freedom, she seeks out Saorlaith and begs for an impossible spell: to learn to love the man she has not chosen. To love in order to survive.
In return, Saorlaith asks her a favor: accompany Aodhán on his journey back to Scotland. Thus intertwine the paths of the lady prisoner to duty and the warrior chained to the past. Together they cross a wounded land, haunted by ghosts and memories, where every step awakens old promises and open wounds.
But no spell can protect the heart from what it refuses to forget. Arianwen will learn that some feelings cannot be conjured, and that to love someone you did not choose is the cruelest spell of all.
And Aodhán… will have to remember who he was, to decide who he wants to become.
Can a spell teach the heart what only the soul is ready to feel? And what if the greatest enchantment is not magic, but the love that blooms when it no longer should?
Can two souls truly find each other if what brought them together was the desire to forget themselves?
Discover more
About the author
REBECCA NYSTROM: «Writing about love would be a craft one learns by writing. Writing about love was the deepest pleasure.
Still, there were always struggles in writing.
Rather, writing was the painting of voice and emotion.
I live and think outside the rule, and I believe in personal power.
Energy goes where the mind flows, and it helps me stay in the present.»
«Writing gives you the strength to evolve. I didn’t yet understand that the more consciously I made choices in my life, the stronger and more autonomous I would become. I live and think beyond conventions, and energy flows wherever the mind goes. I write to understand myself better, to find clarity about the past, to place myself in the present and the future, and to discover the finest moments of this world.»
As my dear Virginia Woolf would say: «It is a shame never to say what one feels.»
«Writing means, to me, dissolving into these ancient stories and looking beyond the past—into the time when I was rejected, hurt, damaged, and broken, where I suffered, where I fought, if that’s what it was. All I’ve done is write, and it has become good work. I hope this book has touched your souls. I love you all deeply. I treasure every comment. Everything you share with me means a great deal.»
«I live and think in unconventional ways, and I believe in personal strength. Energy follows the flow of thoughts.»
«In poetry, Sylvia Plath, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Alejandra Pizarnik have influenced me. For me, they—along with Mary Oliver, Anna Lamott and Virginia Woolf—are the greats. In historical romantic fiction, Ava Krol, Karen Marie Moning, Anna Markland, Samantha Holt, Monica McCarty, Eliza Knight, Tanya Anne Crosby, Julianne MacLean, Julie Garwood, Hannah Howell, and many others are also important...»
Follow my books: https://www.instagram.com/
Follow my updates.
