Camelot & Vine

By Petrea Burchard

Book Overview

Casey Clemens is having a bad day. And it's going to get worse.

It's the day before Casey's 40th birthday and Hollywood doesn't want her anymore (not that it ever did). Her career and personal life are a disaster. Frantic to escape her own emptiness, she hops a plane to England and heads to the countryside to hide. But she can't hide from herself.

A lightning strike, a skidding car, and a horse that might be magical send her through a gap in time to the Dark Ages, where she inadvertently saves King Arthur from Saxon warriors. Mistaken for a wizard, she goes from prisoner to friend to confidante of the King and of his young wife, Guinevere, earning the enmity of powerful men. Surrounded by enemies, caught up in a love triangle and secretly attracted to the king, she'll need more than a magic horse to get herself back to the 21st century.

A delightful intersection of contemporary fiction and historical novel, Camelot & Vine is a funny, bittersweet tale of friendship, love and betrayal through the eyes of a woman who is lost in the present and finds her true self in the past.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0985883774
• ISBN13: 9780985883775
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Boz Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Realistic, Yet Still Enchanting, Twist on the Beloved Camelot Tale

Casey's life in Los Angeles is becoming increasingly frustrating. At least she can run to her boyfriend, who's landing at LAX. But after seeing his wife and family beating her to it at the gate, she knows her last questionable endeavor in L.A. has ended, and traumatized, she books the first flight to Heathrow. She asks for the smallest village in England, preferably one without tourists, and she gets it. The urge to re-create, or even return, to mythical Camelot is part of our DNA, and much has, and will continue, to be written about it. But Ms. Burchard's takes a unique view of King Arthur and his magical kingdom, (also Stonehenge), describing the village, the battles, the warriors, and the women of this ancient time, with humor and historical honesty. There are manly men, resourceful women, an unrequited romance with a king (Lancelot is not the only stud in Camelot.) She also creates an honest Casey, who, living in this unwanted time travel, discovers her own dishonesty and the damage it causes others, and herself. Casey goes backwards to go forewards, and we get to go on the ride with her, learning more about the real Camelot and reinforcing our love of this myth and its people, even more. I was sorry when the book ended, and I had to leave Ms. Burchard's imagining of Camelot. The author's writing style is clean and clear, and this delightful story ended too soon!