Echo Island · Book Two
Fall of the Ten Clans
Out October 6, 2026—
The Eighth Clan has fallen. Calum’s father is dead, the flower box is destroyed, and the only route to the Tuatha is a page of notes in his own handwriting. Book two takes him over the Great Wall — and what’s waiting in the Burly Wood has been waiting three hundred years.
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Where book two opens
Four clans fell in four daring moves.
The First for its military training. The Fourth for its science. The Eighth for its builders. The Tenth for its government. The men who took them have declared themselves separate from the Ten Clans and named their new nation Carman.
Forty survivors are sheltering in a hidden fort. Calum O'Brian is fifteen, he has just buried his father, and the artifact that was going to show him the way is in pieces. What he has left is a page of his own handwriting.
Get over the great wall and into The Burly Wood
Head East
Prepare to encounter a mammoth bear
Don't get distracted in the musical forest
Ask for Alberich
Three hundred years, and nobody has crossed that wall on purpose. Brenan is already on the other side of this war without knowing it yet.
The Burly Wood
Everything the clans built a wall to keep out. Mammoth bears. A forest that sings you to a stop. Winged snakes over an impossibly blue river, and a ruined stone city where every door faces the water.
Henry Belrose
A botanist out of Amazonas, 1924, who walked into a cave on Earth and came out somewhere else. He has a revolver, a thinning supply of ammunition, an electric torch nobody on Echo Island can explain, and the only working scientific method on the planet.
The Vnash
Zealots in dark gray robes from somewhere off the island. They read something they call the flow, they take students, and they have travelled a very long way for one specific reason.
It goes darker
An occupation, propaganda, real grief, and a fifteen-year-old with a kill order on him. Still no profanity and nothing graphic on the page — same as book one, same readers.
Readers on book one · Amazon
Three readers who have already met the Clans
Book two has no reviews yet — it isn’t out. These are readers on Echo Island: The Clan Games, the book that comes first. One of them was already waiting for this one.
★★★★★
“I’m always on the lookout for a good fantasy book and I love this. I’m really excited for book 2!”
★★★★★
“Super exciting, twisty, unique story, very well written… I will seek out other works by this author.”
★★★★★
“A wonderfully written book that keeps you entertained and engaged.”
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The Belrose Journals
Henry Belrose keeps a field journal in Amazonas in the summer of 1924. Eight dated entries, three illustrated plates, and a steady scientific hand right up until the world stops being the one he left.
He is not a bonus character. Henry is a main character in Fall of the Ten Clans from roughly the one-third mark to the last page, the journal stops exactly where the novel starts, and every specimen in those plates turns up in the book.
Eight entries. Three plates. Yours free.
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Field plates drawn by Lucy Egbert (@firelord_creative), who also edits the series.
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Book two won't make sense without the box.
Echo Island is built to be read in order. Book one is $2.99 on Kindle, free on Kindle Unlimited, and there's an audiobook.
Echo Island · Book One
The Clan Games
A masked thief hands fifteen-year-old Calum O'Brian a wooden box and tells him not to open it. Behind the Great Wall the Ten Clans have held their own progress back for three hundred years — and the box turns out to be an invitation from something that isn't human.
Everything about book one → · the series and the Celtic sources →