Retired nurse, avid golfer and dawn walker, living a full life in the beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula. Welcome to Barbara's page - where you can discover fantastic fantasy books!
About Me
After a nursing career spanning more decades than she likes to admit, Barb retired to the coast of South Australia's stunning Fleurieu Peninsula with her dog Shiloh.
Nestled between rolling hills and a panoramic coastline she lives amidst the wetlands of an eco-village, free to write the fantasy books she loves and always wanted to read.
Tangler's Web Trilogy, Book One, The Brazen Dragon
Release date in e-book and print, 27 October 2025. Available through all good online and bricks and mortar stores.
Kira Stillwater is blessed with the Eiran, a healer's gift that helps her to save lives, but a forbidden magic lies dormant insider her, and in Cabarac, magic is a death sentence.
Most eligible young women in Cabarac have two possible futures; accept an offer of marriage, or risk being gathered for the quota, never to be seen again. But when Kira forgoes her only chance for a betrothal token to save the life of a young boy, she is accused of using magic and imprisoned for execution inside the brazen dragon. Her only option is to escape as part of the quota and flee.
Kira struggles to reconcile magic that erupts whenever her life is threatened, with her healer's ethics to do no harm. Helped by an old conjurer, a blind seer nun and the shade of a dragon dead for two centuries, Kira discovers her entire life has been built on a lie designed to protect her from the very threat she is now confronting. What she does with that knowledge could not only change her own future but the fate of an entire kingdom.