Local Author M. Turville Heitz

📚🧀 Local Author Series: M. Turville Heitz 🧀📚

📅 Date: March 12th
🕒 Time: 6 PM
📍 Location: KJM Library

Join us for the next installment of our Local Author Series featuring M. Turville Heitz from Cambridge, Wisconsin! She’ll be sharing her debut novel, Black River, an enthralling fantasy adventure brimming with magic, world-hopping intrigue, and the clash of ancient powers.

About the Book:
Sent to Earth in the midst of war as an infant, the traveling stone gripped in his tiny hand, Kyle Nelson grew up feeling like a fish out of water, despite his family's deep Wisconsin roots. His strange Uncle Rupert filled his head with fanciful tales of world-hopping wizards, but it wasn’t until he turned 21 that a deeper truth emerged.

When Rupert uses magic to send him to Metatha, which has bypassed technological evolution by scavenging from other worlds, he learns he is the last of a ruling caste with the power to use a magical stone and travel between them, and a catalyst that re-ignites an ancient civil war. The Metathans have dreamed of the return of a Traveler so they could access the hidden magic and power of other worlds. What Kyle doesn’t know is that it’s his drunken “Uncle” Rupert that Metathans most fear will swim home. And Rupert hopes Kyle will be his key to do just that.

About the Author:
A former journalist, editor, planner, and farmer, M. Turville Heitz’s short fiction appeared in anthologies and magazines before she took a break to collect a PhD and teach science and technical communications to undergrads. Black River is her first published novel. She lives on a defunct farm in southern Wisconsin where she coddles chickens and is kept by cats.

Find her on social media at MegT.bsky.social, or learn more about her work at oaklandhillsfarm.com.

Don’t miss this chance to meet M. Turville Heitz and dive into her captivating world of magic and mystery. Bring your questions, and let’s celebrate local talent together!