Noran Cadwallader‘s Uncle Edwyn is a best friend, benevolent authority figure, and mentor to the boy from birth until age six, when something very unfortunate happens to the old man.
He and his wife, Noran’s Aunt Adyah, keep a small farm on the outskirts of Little Beddin, amongst the hills. Aunt Adyah is a practical, no-nonsense woman who doesn’t appear to have a maternal instinct, but Edwyn dotes on and admires her, and she him. They are childless, but every summer they take young Noran for a few weeks so that he has a change of place and the chance to learn about the countryside.
Not only does Edwyn set out to teach Noran about nature, he is secretly trying to let the child know about magic and that it exists in their world, although Emperor Carachuill in Dal-Rhiatah has outlawed the use and teaching of magic / magecraft on pain of death.
Edwyn is an undercover researcher into magic, and travelled widely in his recent past, having all sorts of adventures, and is in the middle of writing a book about it in-between the tasks necessary for the running of his farm… then comes the year when Noran turns six and the Wolf-sickness breaks out, spreading from wild dogs and wolves to domestic dogs and humans. Edwyn is attacked and bitten by an infected wild dog, and the illness takes him over rapidly.
Find out what happens to Uncle Edwyn and Noran in the book, “A Dark Heritage: The Nighthunter” available on Amazon globally.
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