<h4><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The first lesson Eilean MacAlistair learned in blacksmithing: First you harden and then you temper.</strong></h4><h4><br></h4><h4><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Otherwise your metal will break.</strong></h4><h4><br></h4><h4><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The same is true with life.</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A few years back Eilean didn't temper herself and she broke someone. Badly. Hospital badly.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her family had to flee Scotland because of her but now they've returned and 17-year-old Eilean's life feels like a forge with the temperature rising around her. Mamó is sick her family is straining at the seams and magic is real!</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An Otherworld has been calling to her from beneath Loch Lomond.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When she answers Eilean discovers a world of blacksmiths in ballgowns cruel cyclopses and chronically critical kelpies.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because she didn't have enough problems to deal with already.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Will Eilean be able to temper herself against everything in this strange new world and withstand the weight of her past? Or will she break once again?</span></p><p><br></p><h4><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Find out in the first adventure of Eilean in the Otherworld The Spiral of Life a young adult fantasy inspired by Celtic folklore.</strong></h4><p><br></p>