A Harper’s Journey: Book 1 – On Horse and Harp

Life brings to us many challenges and many opportunities.

Numb with grief, Orla is asked to take up the harp. Filled with self-doubt, will she take on this task? Is she up to it?

She is not young; knows nothing of playing an instrument; and these are dangerous times for a harper.

In seventeenth century, Ireland, the English see the harp as a symbol of resistance to their domination, and give no quarter when it comes to its eradication and those who play it.

Orla has lived her whole life under English rule. She has suffered much at their hand. Her values are challenged when everything she knows is lost, and she must begin a new life.

Life in the place to where she runs, though in her homeland, is utterly foreign. The people live in ways she never dreamed possible. She is confronted at every turn; her thinking, her beliefs, her feelings, and what is being asked of her.

Orla, a spirited woman, would never ask another to stand in her stead, but is she willing to take up the harp knowing not where it might take her, and knowing that it may cost her life?

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