Next came A Splendid Defiance – the first of my Civil War novels and possibly, still, the one dearest to my heart. It was an early work and changes were needed so I used the opportunity to make them. The version currently available, is not the 1983 original. Consequently, by the time poor Lucifer was finally published, it had been through so many incarnations it was neither fish nor fowl – which is why I will never re-issue it.Īfter Lucifer, came The Marigold Chain.

It turned out that I was … but that I had a lot to learn. I wrote my first novel, Lucifer’s Champion, to find out if I was actually capable of writing a book. It has won “Honoring Excellence” awards from the Association of Independent Authors and is fully accredited.

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Hazard by Stella Riley