The Inheritor Saga · Book One

Isle of
the Bound

"Some secrets don't stay buried. Some legacies don't stay dead."

Isle of Man. TT Race Week. 1988.
A family's darkest secret is about to surface.

The Story

Beneath the ancient hills of the Isle of Man, something stirs. Something that has been waiting for a very long time.

When the Shelley family arrives on the island during TT Race Week, they expect nothing more than the roar of motorcycles and the smell of salt air. But the island has other plans.

A grandfather's cryptic treasure hunt. Viking secrets carved in stone. A prisoner bound since before memory. And a legacy that will either save the Shelleys — or destroy them entirely.

Five books. One island. Everything at stake.

The Saga

Isle of the Bound (1988)

A family holiday becomes a treasure hunt that unravels centuries of secrets buried beneath Mann.

Coming 2026

The Hidden War (1989)

The enemy reveals itself. Alliances form. The stakes become impossibly personal.

Coming 2027

III

The Convergence (1990)

Ancient powers converge on the island. There is nowhere left to hide.

Coming 2027

The Blighted Isle (1991)

Mann itself is under threat. The Shelleys must choose: save the island or save themselves.

Coming 2028

Ragnarök (1992)

Everything ends. Everything begins. The final reckoning.

Coming 2028

The Setting

The Isle of Man

A real island. A thousand years of parliament. Viking burial grounds. Celtic mythology. The world's most dangerous motorcycle race. And beneath it all — something older than any of it.

"The Isle of Man sits at the centre of the British Isles — equidistant from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The ancient Celts believed it was the axis of the world. They weren't entirely wrong."

The Author

Cadence Shelley

Writer of journals, puzzle books, and one very ambitious fantasy saga. Based on the Isle of Man — where the best stories write themselves.

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