The Real History Behind The Witch's Rebirth — And How My Family Lineage Started It All

The Witch's Rebirth Series

Every mythology begins with a question someone refused to let go of.

Mine began with my own family tree.

While researching my lineage, I uncovered a history I hadn't expected — a thread connecting witches, witch hunters, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and founders of Ivy League universities. I kept pulling. The thread held. And it led me all the way back to 4th and 5th-century Gaul, to a dynasty whose kings believed their divine authority lived in their hair, and whose fall marked the last time the old magic was openly practiced in Europe.

The World of Merona

The Witch's Rebirth is set across fifteen hundred years of real European history — from 988 BC Ancient Ireland through the Merovingian courts of medieval France to a witch's pyre in 1590 Copenhagen.

At the center of it all is Merona: an immortal witch who has died and been reborn across every era. She doesn't just witness the history — she lives inside it. She carries the Book of Enoch in her own memory after the Church begins burning the manuscripts. She stands in the Monastery of Slane when a king's sacred power is severed with a pair of scissors. She is present when the last Merovingian king is loaded into an ox-cart and his dynasty — and the magic it carried — is extinguished forever.

Every supernatural element in this series is rooted in documented history and real Celtic mythology. The Morrigan is real. Manannán mac Lir is real. The standing stones of Bronze Age Ireland are real. I did not invent a fantasy world. I found one that was already there, hiding inside the historical record.

The Characters

Merona is not a chosen one. She is what fifteen hundred years of surviving makes a person. Fierce, scarred, still standing — and carrying every death she has ever died.

Murdach is her companion across the centuries: an immortal shape-shifting dragon who has watched empires rise and fall alongside her.

The Morrigan — the Goddess of War — appears throughout the series as a red wolf. She was inspired by my own German Shepherd, Morrigan, who has been with me through every book of this series. (If you've ever had a dog who seemed to know things, you'll understand why she became a goddess.)

And Armaeus: the ancient Daemon who waits in the shadows across every era, desperate to reshape the world in his own dark image. Every hero needs a villain who has been planning as long as she has.

Why the Labyrinth?

The labyrinth at the heart of Book I was inspired by real places — hikes I have taken alone, in silence, in landscapes where the boundary between this world and whatever lies beyond it feels thinner than usual.

Septimania, where Merona is first reborn in the series, is a real village in the South of France. It still stands. The history I wrote into it — the battles, the sacred geography, the collision of Roman Christianity and Celtic mythology — is all documented.

Through writing this series, I've come to believe in reincarnation. Not necessarily in a specific religious framework — but in the idea that consciousness returns, recreates itself, and carries something forward. Whatever you believe, I hope Merona's journey gives you language for that feeling.

The Full Series Arc

• Book I: Labyrinth of Shadows (1590 Copenhagen / 478 AD) — Where the loop opens. Available now.

• Book II: The Cauldron of Dagda (540 AD Constantinople) — Merona discovers her divine lineage. Available now.

• Book III: The Spear of Lugh (544 AD, The Battle of Septimania) — She dies. She rises immortal. Available now.

• Book IV: The Gambit of Queens (567–597 AD) — The War of Two Queens. Fredegund rises. Coming September 2026.

• Book V: The Golden Sunset (613–639 AD) — The shadow of the Mayors. Magic begins to muffle.

• Book VI: The Blood of Dagobert (656–679 AD) — The sacred hair is cut. The Veil fractures.

• Book VII: The Iron Crown (751 AD) — The loop closes.

• Book VIII: A Covenant of Ravens (988 BC) — The origin of everything.

Where to Begin

Start with Book I: Labyrinth of Shadows. It opens in 1590 Copenhagen on a woman burning at the stake — who is not afraid, because she has done this before. From that first scene, the loop is already running.

Books I, II, and III are available now. Book IV — The Gambit of Queens — arrives this September 2026.

I have spent years building this world. I hope you'll come live in it with me.