The Saga of Black Jim MacCrimmons

About the Book

Felicitie' vanished! Her personal handmaids vanished with her! Black Jim suddenly vanished from the Blackfoot Tribes convocation of chiefs and shamans and was teamed with four brindle spirit-sniffer hounds to seek the intersec between time and space to follow the Dark Angel's hellish imps who had stolen Felicitie'. Time, for the Blackfeet, was frozen to await Black Jim's return. The imps could only go a certain distance along the Dark Angel's hellish pathways because Felicitie' and her handmaiden's had not been condemned, being free of sin. Black Jim had been chosen as the chief knight in the chess game between the Lord of Light and Beauty and the Dark Angel. His purity was such that he could not travel the dark paths, but could parallel them in the intersecs between time and space. Followers of the Dark Angel, now all chess pieces on his board, could call on those condemned to hellish fires and torture. Black Jim's resources were much more dazzling. All who had been granted entrance into The Lord of Light and Beauty's Garden of Waiting could serve him in his quest for Felicitie' and her ladies on a diminutive world filling one neutron of an atom. Even the Angels were on call to assist him. The great Saga unfolds.

About the Author

Flung across the moist farmlands of the South, skipping like a flat stone over a calm pond, Hubert (Bright Spirit) landed in the cotton mill village of Columbus, Georgia, coming to rest in the family of Clan Singer and knowledge-keeper Richard Alexander Loyd. Singer Richard chose his first grandson, Bright Spirit, to carry the stories and legends of their Southern heritage into the future. Loyd, he was named, His father preferred Phillips. Young Bright Spirit chose Philips-Loyd. His mother was Amanda. Educated in the public schools, his mind was polished by service in the U. S. Navy and, later, the Air Force where he learned his craft as a photo-journalist, writer-editor and historian. Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas, granted him a bachelor's in 1974, followed by a master's in 1977. Editor, teacher and historian, his avocation is entertaining the children of Houston County, Georgia's elementary schools as a story-teller. Also, he is a substitute teacher at Houston County High School. As a novelist, he collects stories of the early European settlements in southern North America and their interactions with the original peoples. Revolutionary Texans and their firm roots in pioneer Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana fire his imagination also. The author is father to five sons and one daughter. With his second wife's grandchildren, there are fifteen grandsons and five granddaughters. Wilma Ollene (d:1992) began the family, Lola is now his wife. The stones skips on.