Showing On Angel Mountain by Brian John

On Angel Mountain has now sold over 32,000 in paperback.  This is Part 1 of the Angel Mountain Saga (Historical Fiction)

Get your copy now, and enter the enchanting world of Martha Morgan, a VERY imperfect heroine.

Martha Morgan is eighteen years old, pregnant and suicidal. She has just suffered the trauma of a shotgun marriage, and now she finds herself in a strange house high on the slopes of a bleak mountain. She has to learn how to survive in this alien environment, surrounded by a group of eccentric family members and servants who are still recovering from the loss of five family members in a tragic fire. 

Against the odds, Martha does survive, learning in the process that she is protected by a group of very unlikely angels and that the mountain has a magical quality which insinuates itself into her soul. She is very beautiful, and that is both her blessing and her curse. So she makes enemies as well as friends, and as the story builds towards its climax she discovers some unpleasant truths about the family's past, and suffers from humiliation and brutality when she is attacked from all sides by those whom she has sought to befriend.  Her most implacable enemy is a manservant with a very unsavoury past, whose sole ambition is to possess her and then destroy her........

Historical Fiction?  Mystery?  Romance? Action Thriller?  “A modern Welsh literary triumph... a page-turning plot, packed with adventure, treason, murder and passion.”  “Engaging characters, a fast-paced plot and a vivid sense of place combine to create a warm and page-turning novel.” 

Each volume in this Saga deals with an episode in the life of the feisty and sensuous heroine Martha Morgan, the Mistress of a small country estate, in the years 1796 - 1855. Mistress Martha is one of the most complex and well-rounded characters in contemporary literature -- displaying, as she goes through life, a multitude of conflicting virtues and vices which have endeared her to many thousands of faithful readers.  In her world, in the Wild West of Wales, Jane Austen’s Lizzie Bennet would not have survived for five minutes.

Featured in the BBC film “Land of Dreams: The Man from Angel Mountain.”

This is the most popular of the eight volumes of the Saga.  In a BBC poll, nominated by readers as the best Welsh novel ever.   Try it and enjoy!