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The Druids of Marduk, Part I: A Prequel to the Awen Trilogy Kindle Edition
After nine thousand years of peace and prosperity, the Milky Way Galaxy is about to get a rude awakening. Druantia, queen of the Druid world of Marduk, is the only celestial who stands between the galaxy and a race of bloodthirsty Reptilians. Worse, Bé Chuille, her witch-goddess guardian and nemesis, is conspiring against Druantia.
Can Queen Druantia convince the Alliance of Worlds to close its borders to the warring race? Or will the other gods’ ignorance bring disaster upon them all?
To find out, read The Druids of Marduk, Part I, today.
Author's Note: This 47-page short read (Part I) takes place thousands of years before the Awen Trilogy and details the harrowing events of the Druid-Reptilian exodus to Earth. Part II relates their first days in UnderEarth, while Part III chronicles their eventual migration to AboveEarth.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 17, 2021
- File size1.4 MB
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- ASIN : B08S9NCLFJ
- Publisher : PeaceMakers Publishing
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : March 17, 2021
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- File size : 1.4 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 56 pages
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,052,539 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

O.J. Barré resides in beautiful, windswept Cheyenne, WY, US, where the constantly changing 360-degree view of the sky never ceases to amaze. Her writing partner, Rambo the Rambunctious, is a twenty-four-pound black Maine Coon mix. After choosing O.J. at the shelter in 2019, Rambo reminds her daily to write, play, and sit in silence. But, O.J. hails from the lushly forested, red-clay hills near Atlanta, Georgia. From birth, O.J. was a force of nature. Barefoot and freckled, headstrong and gifted; she was, and is, sensitive to a fault. Books became her refuge as a young child, allowing O.J. to escape the confines of her turbulent alcoholic home on adventures to untold places and times. Her daddy's mother was a Willoughby, making O.J. a direct descendant of William the Conqueror. Her Awen series is a love letter to that distant past.
In the early 2000s, Terry Brooks' Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold changed her life forever when it leapt off the rack at Barnes & Noble and into her hands. With its quirky dog-scribe Abernathy and the other talking animal and earth characters, this series is still one of O.J.'s favorites. The juxtaposition of a fantastical world within our day-to-day one directly influenced the creation of The Awen Trilogy. O.J.'s love of animals, nature, meditation, natural healing, and cinema can also be found in the pages of her novels, as well as the recurring theme of home. As a neurodivergent with ADD and HSP propensities, O.J.'s characters deal with mental issues like anxiety and panic disorder, depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other -isms—as they rally to save each other and the world.
From O.J. Barré:
As a child of the ’60s and ’70s, I cut my teeth on the classics. I read every book I could get my hands on—from my local library and the one next town over. I can close my eyes and remember Mrs. Townsend, the purple-eyed librarian, peering at me intently, eyebrows raised, as she stamped the card for Animal Farm.
Bored with the books at my grade level, eight-year-old me had chosen one from the advanced stack. Adult-me thinks she was right to question, though I’m glad she only said it with her face. As I read, I was appalled and uncomfortable, then outraged and saddened. I knew there was more to the story, something I could not fathom. Though even at eight, I understood more than most.
I was a tomboy. And, yes, the term has fallen from favor, but I was. I rode horses, climbed trees, waded in creeks, and tussled with my brothers, though my quick wits and swift feet are what saved me most often. They still do, come to think of it, though most of my running now is metaphoric.
I was a cheerleader. Yes, pep and all. It kept me out of trouble—until it didn’t. I love learning and excelled in school. I just wish they hadn’t whitewashed the material. Now that the real story is finally coming to light, holy déjà vu—I am appalled, uncomfortable, and saddened once again, a la Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984.
Sadder still, as a retired 60something melancholic semi-reclusive loner writer with anxiety issues, I shudder that like Montag’s wife, Mildred, in F451—I spend more time with Brennan and Booth and Castle and Beckett than with real people.
That brings me back to y'all. Thank God for you my readers, Substack, and social media. Y’all might be inside a machine, but at least you’re real people (bots notwithstanding). You give this mostly home-bound writer a focal point, a forum, a place to show up that isn’t my work-in-progress, a book, or television.
THANK YOU!
Now, to speed through the interim stats. I majored in business in college in 1981, got sober in ’91, earned my Doctor of Chiropractic degree in ’98, saw patients for 23 years, retired in 2022, and moved to Cheyenne. And, yes, I’m still sober.
In the early 2000s, my lifelong passion for words and reading prompted me to purchase my first laptop. I poured my heart into a memoir, only to lose it one month later when my brand-new hard drive crashed. Then, I wrote a children’s book/allegorical novel, Frank and Ernie Find Home. A chick lit/women’s fiction novel was my first substantial work, written in 2010. And I found my voice while writing over 250 essays in three years for That Rebel with a Blog (2009 to 2012).
That’s when Awen and William’s story, the Awen Trilogy, grabbed me and wouldn’t let go. Y’all, I took to that project like a woman drowning. (Hint, hint, I was.) It took seven more years to write and publish Awen Rising, followed by another year for Awen Storm and then two more for Awen Tide. Between AR & AS, I stopped to write a prequel that begins millennia earlier in outer space.
“Why?” you ask? I needed the backstory to complete the trilogy.
I could tell you so, so, sooo much more. Maybe later, if you’re interested, I will. But this is running long. So find me on Substack at Awen's Porch. Or on Facebook or Instagram as long as I'm still there.
OH YEAH! I am currently writing a series that you're going to love. It's a spinoff from the Awen Trilogy, featuring the three more mature women from the original series as main characters. A crossover between urban fantasy, thriller, and paranormal women's fiction—this one is fun, funky, tender, savage, and anything but bland. These characters must deal with cronehood in an ageist society while kicking supernatural ass and setting both AboveEarth and UnderEarth on their collective ears. You can read Crossed, Cursed, & Nearly Dead as a serial on Substack beginning June 30, 2025. Or wait until I publish it here later in the year.
WHAT IS MY GREATEST HOPE FOR MY READERS? That in the pages of my novels, you, too, will find and release your own Inner Awen. You can follow my writing adventures by subscribing to my newsletter on Substack. Or you can find me on FB or IG as long as I'm still there.
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2024Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseI love how easily you are able to submerge yourself into the world. How quick the action starts. Fell in love with the characters, and cared about the havoc happening in their worlds. I look forward to reading all the ones in this series.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2021Format: KindleThousands of years before Awen must face the evil Reptilians as they threaten to take over Planet Earth, a cataclysmic explosion rocks the planet of the powerful Druantia. As Druantia learns the extent of the damage and the limits of her own power, she must deal with the treacherous and lecherous Be'Chuille. She faces the politics and power of the Alliance of Worlds, trying to convince them to close borders agains the Reptilian race, which is bent on taking over the universe. A magical red bird that takes on the form of a man brings the promise of love to beautiful Druantia. This book gives valuable background to the world that Awen inherits in the Awen Trilogy.