Jo Harthan

Bullroarer Jo Harthan

Following Jayne's death in a vicious attack, her father suffers a similar fate in mysterious circumstances. Her sister, Rebecca, is left to seek answers; after all two burnings in one family can't be coincidence. This is a tale of ancestral dabbling in the dark arts and the price future generations pay when they too are drawn into occult practices for personal gain. Opposing them is the ancient magic of Mithras that cares nothing for right or wrong, good or evil, it strives only for equilibrium in a world that is out of balance. Amy, Rebecca's best friend since school, is an unsuspecting pawn in this spiritual warfare. At first ignorant of her destiny and of the wider implications of her actions, she at last comes to understand her role in this universal game of cat and mouse. The world hangs on a thread and it is up to Amy to right the wrongs of generations and restore balance to the world. Bullroarer is set in Saddleworth on the edge of the bleak Pennine moors in what was once the West Riding of Yorkshire. Forming part of the Dark Peak it is a land of deep valleys, gritstone stacks, shattered cliffs and towering bluffs interspersed with dangerous gullies of black peat, as treacherous as quicksand. It is where ravens and peregrines hunt mountain hare while curlews screech their warnings over the bleak moorland.