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The Crossing Is Now Available
Book One of the Blood of the Crossing saga is out now in hardcover, paperback, and ebook. Rhys and Meg's story — from the Welsh hillsides to the Atlantic to colonial Virginia — is ready for readers.
Blood of the Crossing
News
Updates on the series, historical research, cover reveals, and writing notes from Steven Phillips.
Historical Notes
The Welsh in Early Virginia: What the Records Show
Welsh names appear in the Jamestown records from the earliest years of the colony — but they are often anglicised, fragmented, or buried in lists that were never meant to preserve identity. A look at what the documents reveal and what they conceal.
Writing
On Writing Women Who Don't Wait to Be Rescued
Meg Hughes was never going to be a passive character. Writing her meant thinking carefully about what agency looked like for a Welsh widow in 1609 — and about the difference between historical accuracy and historical limitation.
Series Updates
Cover Reveal: The Crossing
The cover for Book One is here. The image — a solitary figure walking toward a distant ship — captures something essential about the story: the moment before the crossing, when turning back is still possible.
Historical Notes
Enclosure, Eviction, and the Road to Virginia
The displacement of Welsh farming families in the early seventeenth century was not a single event — it was a slow erosion of customary rights, accelerated by English law and the ambitions of men with documents. How that process shaped the world of the series.
Writing
Book Two: What I Can Say So Far
Book Two of the Blood of the Crossing saga is underway. Without giving too much away: the story moves deeper into Virginia, the consequences of the first crossing begin to compound, and several characters you met in Book One will face choices they cannot take back.
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