Price’s novel set in Wellsville
If you’re a resident of Wellsville, you may very well wake up one day to find that your sleepy little town is the setting of Benjamin Price’s debut novel, Mormaer. Price soft released Mormaer in March 2021 for family and friends.
Superstition and legend have always resisted the embrace of metropolitan sophistication and authority. It is in the areas farthest removed, and in the forgotten black dots on maps that the truths of the old world are protected and passed down from generation to generation. Do you know who your neighbors are?
Mormaer is the story of Taggart O’Beolan, a Scottish sin eater who was cursed with rejuvenating abilities after consuming the sins of an immortal over 800 years prior. After many centuries and adventures, Taggart turns his back on the sacred ceremony and the immortality that each meal allows. Instead, he resigns himself to old age and the prospect of death. Only when his next-door neighbor is murdered and the orphaned daughter shows signs of the same ability does he finally change his mind. Together, Taggart and Vivian must escape the clutches of one of the Catholic Church’s oldest groups, The Order of the Thorne. Through their flight over states and continents, Vivian must learn how to use her abilities while her mentor seeks out those whose blood can fully restore him to youth, the Strix.