The Lost Rune

An intriguing mix of time slip, historical adventure, Norse mythology and romance.After being swept across the centuries by a magical rune, Paidin Ryan is brutally attacked, stripped of his talisman, and left on the verge of death.Ronan, the son he's never known, tracks him from a Norse longhouse to an Irish fishing town, but loses the trail after being thwarted by mysterious forces.Ronan returns to the present and enlists his beloved Saoirse and her best friend in the search. Their discoveries send Ronan plummeting back through time to recover Paidin's rune, a quest that sees him battling criminal gangs and the darker influences of his own rune.Is he prepared to do whatever it takes to rescue his father, even if it means becoming as ruthless as those he must defeat? And will that change Saoirse's feelings for him? Mark was raised in the vast Australian Outback on a diet of real and imagined adventures. They swept him across searing deserts, heaving seas, daunting forests, and time itself, kindling a passion for long-ago times, far-away lands and fascinating cultures. It's unsurprising that he writes of characters and worlds shaped by his passion for adventure, history and justice-uplifting tales with satisfying endings.Ever the creative, Mark has also written the award-winning and best-selling anthology, Westering.His idea of the perfect day is a five-kilometre run, 2000 words sprinkled with ample research, and a good book.