Wild Dunes Literary Series' Fall Author Event: Launch of Signe Pike's The Shadowed Land

Don your tartans and plaids for a braw literary fling featuring Lowcountry novelist Signe Pike and her highly anticipated new release, The Shadowed Land. What better way to celebrate a Scottish historical than with a Tartan Ball! 

Wild Dunes Literary Series’ Fall Author Event 

Launch of Signe Pike’s  THE SHADOWED LAND

Monday, December 9th,  6:00 - 8:00 pm
Osprey Ballroom at Sweetgrass Inn
5757 Palm Blvd, Isle of Palms, SC 29451

A tartan ball, which celebrates Scottish and Irish heritage, is the featured fall event of the Wild Dunes Literary Series. Tickets to The Shadowed Land Tartan Ball include:

• bagpipe welcome
• live Celtic music and dancing
• Scottish-themed heavy hors d'oeuvres
• beer and wine
• signed hardcover The Shadowed Land

Mary Alice Monroe will offer a celebratory toast and introduction followed by Pike’s presentation of her novel and an author signing for book personalization at the Buxton Books pop-up store, where additional copies of Pike’s work will be available for purchase.

Tickets are $75.00  per person and include a signed copy of The Shadowed Land.

If you have questions, contact: clubline@wilddunes.com

About The Shadowed Land:

King Arthur and his contemporaries are boldly reimagined in this “mystical, epic, and captivating” (Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author) series that resurrects the real historical figures who inspired one of our most enduring legends. The Shadowed Land is Book Three in the celebrated series (The Lost Queen, The Forgotten Kingdom).

Scotland, AD 580: A queen has risen. A battle has been won. Loved ones who were lost have been reunited. But in a land of power-hungry kings, peace is precarious and cannot last for long. 

The stage is set for war. Famed warrior Artúr receives a mysterious summons from his father in Dalriada. Queen Languoreth and her brother must return to Strathclyde  to maintain the fragile balance between the Christians and the opeople of the Old Way. Meanwhile, the young priestess Angharad must travel deep into the shadowed land of the Picts, hoping to become the initiate of Briochan, a druid who practices the secret Celtic art of weather work.

As they rise to meet their fates, they are pushed to impossible new frontiers: each must decide whether they are willing to do what it takes to become the heroes their harrowing days demand. Set in the sprawling historical landscape of early medieval Scotland, Pike’s critically acclaimed retelling of the Arthurian saga thrusts readers into a world of ambition, loyalty and love, revealing truths that have for too long been buried by legend.

This “rich, immersive” (Kirkus Reviews) saga transports the reader to a vivid world of mysticism, beauty, and meticulously researched early medieval history.

About Signe Pike: 

Signe Pike is the author of three novels in The Lost Queen series, which has been optioned for television, and a travel memoir entitled Faery Tale. A former acquisitions editor at Random House and then Penguin, Pike has been researching  and writing about Celtic history now for more than a decade.

About Mary Alice Monroe: 

Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times bestselling author of nearly 30 books, including the beloved Beach House series and Lowcountry Summer series. Monroe has also written picture books and a middle grade fiction book series called The Islanders, which is a New York Times bestseller. Monroe is an active conservationist and supports numerous conservation-focused organizations, including the South Carolina Aquarium and The Leatherback Trust. She lives in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, which is a source of inspiration for many of her books. 

About the Wild Dunes Literary Series with Mary Alice Monroe: 

“In Conversation With Mary Alice Monroe” is a seasonal literary series, exclusive to the Isle of Palms, and is a longtime partnership between Wild Dunes Resort and award-winning, bestselling author and island resident Mary Alice Monroe. 

The series of events is as followed: 

• Spring Event with featured author 
• Summer Event (for families) celebrating children’s literature
• Fall Event with featured author
• Winter Event is our annual gala known as the Wild Dunes Author Event with Mary Alice Monroe, which features headlining authors and includes a weekend of activities celebrating a shared love of books with proceeds benefiting a local literacy organization (Reading Partners SC).