The Silver Branch

by Dayle Carnahan McKinney


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Softcover
$19.99
Hardcover
$37.95
E-Book
$5.99
Softcover
$19.99

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 2/25/2019

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 302
ISBN : 9781480874541
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 302
ISBN : 9781480874565
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 302
ISBN : 9781480874558

About the Book

On a strange night of falling stars, Aria is called to learn who she is and why. Coerced by a grandmother to leave her desert home in California, Aria embarks on an adventure of discovery.

Guided and transported by the most colorful of curiosities, back (and back) in time she travels, and along the way, comes face to face with those who forged her family.

She goes to the Beginning of Things—not the Beginning of Time, but the Beginning of Things, as they exist in Aria’s world. Her beliefs and assumptions are crushed beneath her wandering pilgrim feet as she leaves the modern era behind in search of something she didn’t even know she needed.

Escorted and cajoled by kings, outlaws, druids, and damsels, Aria is made aware of truths long hidden. Lost in a land of myth, she is made fully dependent on a long line of grandparents, both kind and diabolical, who ensure her safe passage back to California after sojourns in France, Scotland, England, and Ireland, where the Beginning of Things takes place. People who share Aria’s rare Rh-negative blood populate these ancient lands. These are people who the Watchers watch.

“The Silver Branch is an imaginative ride through history written with engaging wit. Aria is an enchanting character that takes us on an exciting journey through many different modes of travel to a magical, satisfying end, which is really the beginning.”

—Carla Harrower

Landscape Contractor

“In the Silver Branch, Aria is called to learn who she is...and why. And on a strange night of falling stars, her journey begins. Guided and transported by the most colorful of curiosities, back (and back) in time she travels and along the way comes face to face with those who forged her family...and herself. Historical and mythical, Aria’s story will compel readers to want to hear the tales and see the faces etched along the branches of their own family tree.”

—Maria Pritchard

Author and Retired Educator

The story is a journey through intimate glimpses painting a history of cultures subtly told in generational sequences and family tales. It never lets go of being in the present, skeptical while knowing that reality and magic might both exist. The reader is taken along it all, as if told a magical story, which despite historical connections between the mysteries, it really is. The Silver Branch tells a story in changing layers more parallel than mixing, and as far-away magical as the nearness of home.

—Jonathan Beck M.D.


About the Author

Dayle Carnahan McKinney lives in Morongo Valley, California, with her husband on Rose Eden Drive—the street named for her husband’s Palm Springs pioneer grandmother, Rose. Their home is near one of only two natural bird migration sanctuaries in America, Big Morongo Preserve. The Silver Branch is a work of fiction based on the culmination of eight years’ genealogical research by McKinney.