Bertram of Butter Cross
Bertram of Butter Cross, the fourth volume in author Jeffrey E. Barlough's acclaimed "Western Lights" series of fantasy-mysteries, is a magical tale of yearning and loss and the tyranny of years. And like the other Western Lights books in the genre that Barlough has made all his own, it is a tale chock-full of mystery. What, for example, is the hideous, snake-necked monstrosity that has been roaming Marley Wood? Who are the phantom riders seen plunging through the wood by moonlight? And above all, who is the strange small boy found living in the ruined hunting-lodge deep inside the forest? Return now to the Ice Age world of the "sundering," and join Jemma Hathaway and her brother Richard, Ada Henslowe, Sir Hector MacHector and their friends in deepest Fenshire as they struggle to solve the insolvable: the mystery of Marley Wood!
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Jeffrey E. Barlough
Jeffrey E. Barlough is a trained biologist and veterinarian with a Ph.D. in Virology from Cornell, and has published over 60 research and review articles in scientific journals since 1979. He is also an armchair historian and has edited small press publications of minor and archaic English works.
According to Library Journal Barlough's Western Lights books combine witty detail of Dickensian fiction with the terror of Lovecraftian horror.
Western Lights
The Western Lights books are set in an Ice Age America that might have been, had historical – and prehistorical – events taken a different course. The imagined landscape of the series encompasses the western coast of North America, from what is now lower British Columbia to approximately San Diego.
Western Lights consists of six books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
