THE GATHERING
A secret bond that has echoed for sixteen centuries.
History never told their story.
People think this is a story about women but while the protagonists are women, it is a story about the resilience of culture in the slow return to order from chaos. It’s about the quiet voices in history, especially those vocalized in the margins, between battles and beneath crowns. The quiet strength of the forgotten, the generational impact of choices made in desperation, and the invisible threads that bind past to present… those are the stories that can move us.
The Bond of Teadorica: The Gathering is the first volume in a seven-book epic that spans sixteen centuries. “Gathering” begins with a desperate escape, a newborn child, and a sacred covenant between women who had nothing left but each other.
This isn’t a tale of kings either.
It’s the legacy of those who survived them.
What to Expect
This is historical fiction rooted in grit, sacrifice, and resilience. It’s about the refusal to be erased, and how individual and group choices echo through the bloodlines that follow.
• Begins in 5th century Western Europe
• Centered on strength, survival, and legacy
• Spanning generations through a powerful covenant
• The first step in a 7-part series spanning 16 centuries of Western Civilization.
— T W Freeman
A bond is more than a relationship. It is a covenant among souls, evolved over time which time can never break. This is a story of such a covenant, but it was not a typical one for its day. Born out of tragedy, it was forged in the crucible of unrelenting hardship punctuated with periods of prosperity. It has endured through the voices and souls of selected women bound by loyalty and sacrifice, upholding timeless values in pursuit of generational survival.
About the author
An unlikely combination of education and decades of global experience from the arts and business informs a unique outlook on the world and has formed the inspiration for this epic series “The Bond of Teadorica”. It can be enjoyed by lovers of history, fiction, and epic historical fiction with bold atypical characters. Don’t take my word for it. Read the first volume “The Gathering” and see for yourself.