A Peck in Time: The Blackwatch Chronicles

By H.M. Clarke

As the crow flies, the boar will follow…

 

Ashe and Edward find more than they expected when they take a shortcut through the woods.

 

Features a younger Cornelius Ashe, Ryn Weaver, and Peck the Nabolean Crow from Proven

• Language: English
• Publisher: HMC Press
• Release date: Nov 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215917183

H.M. Clarke

In a former life, H M Clarke has been a Console Operator, an ICT Project Manager, Public Servant, Paper Shuffler and an Accountant (the last being the most exciting.) She attended Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, where she studied for a Bachelor of Science (Chem), and also picked up a Diploma in Project Management while working for the South Australian Department of Justice. In her spare time, she likes to lay on the couch and watch TV, garden, draw, read, and tell ALL her family what wonderful human beings they are. She keeps threatening to go out and get a real job (Cheesecake Test Taster sounds good) and intends to retire somewhere warm and dry – like the middle of the Simpson Desert. For the time being however, she lives in Ohio and dreams about being warm…

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A Peck in Time

H.M. Clarke

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Copyright © H. M. Clarke 2022

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First published in The United States of America in 2022

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Dedication

A Peck in Time

Also by H.M. Clarke

About the Author

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As always, this book is dedicated to my two beautiful children, Keith and Ariadne.

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A Peck in Time

‘I should have known better than to take a shortcut of Edward’s,’ Ashe thought to himself as he perched precariously on the rough tree branch. Below him, Ashe could still hear the snorting of the wild boar that had caused the two boys to be in the tree in the first place.

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