Glacier National Park Connection

"Sarabande," "Garden of Heaven: an Odyssey" and "The Sun Singer" all have primary scenes set in the mountains of Glacier National Park, Montana.

While "Sarabande" is the sequel to "The Sun Singer," it can easily be read as a stand-alone novel. "The Sun Singer" tells the story of young Robert Adams who travels to the mountains to finish a mission his avatar grandfather left unfinished.

When Robert reaches Glacier Park, he finds a hidden portal to a look-alike universe where battles rage and magic is everywhere. In this dangerous land, Robert meets his destiny.

"Garden of Heaven: an Odyssey" is a related novel about David Ward, who makes a brief appearance in "The Sun Singer." This is a coming of age novel about a man who grows up on a Montana sheep ranch, serves on an aircraft carrier during the  Vietnam War, and ends up teaching at a small college in central Illinois. He is stalked throughout his life by a first love who finds him on campus and turns his world into a living hell.

Just for Fun

Drifting over into the world of comedy and satire, I wrote "Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire." It's about an ass-kicking, old-style newspaper reporter who dislikes authority (his boss, the government) and the low-life scum who murdered newspaper employee Bambi Hill.

Release Dates

• Sarabande, contemporary fantasy, August 2011
• Garden of Heaven: an Odyssey, adventure, June 2010
• Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire, comedy/satire, August 2009
• The Sun Singer, contemporary fantasy, first edition June 2004, second edition February 2010

Sarabande

Released by Vanilla Heart Publishing in trade paperback and e-book. In addition to Kindle and Nook, the book is also availlable at Smashwords in multiple formats.

Publisher's Blurb

After Dryad haunts her from beyond the grave for three years, Sarabande undertakes a dangerous journey into the past to either raise her cruel sister from the dead, ending the torment, or to take her place in the safe darkness of the earth.

Sarabande leaves the mountains of Montana for the cornfields of Illinois on a black horse to seek help from Robert Adams, the once powerful Sun Singer, in spite of Gem’s prophecy of shame. Siobhan tries to help her with the gift of an enchanted Rowan staff, Danny tries to kill her alongside a deserted prairie road, Billy tries to save her with ancient wisdom, and Robert tries to send her away.

Even if Sarabande persuades Robert to bring the remnants of his magic to Dryad’s shallow grave, the desperate man who follows desires the staff for ill intent and the malicious sister who awaits desires much more than a mere return to life.

Praise

"This novel tells a tale that begins in one world and culminates in another, ultimately straddling both and holding them in exquisite balance with some fine poetic grace. "Sarabande" centers largely around a harrowing experience that befalls the title heroine on a dark highway side on a wicked night, and recounts the difficult journey towards wholeness and new life that follows."

--Seth Mullins, author, Song of the Twice Born

"Sarabande's story is a familiar one for most women. She comes from a place which is harsh and cruel and disempowers her until she transforms herself from survivor to fighter. Most who read Campbell's novel will find themselves forced to inspect events in their own lives which have robed them of their power, and will have to question themselves on whether or not they have remained survivors or become fighters."

--Nora Caron, author, Journey to the Heart

Book Websites

Sarabande

Garden of Heaven

The Sun Singer