The Astreya Series

Astreya’s Sorrow

Released 2026, (Book 7)

Astreya is fifty. Disheartened that his past decisions endangered his family and friends, he has spent six years at The Tower, searching ancient books to find out how to avoid another Great Calamity. At Lindey’s call, he returns to Matris to discover that the enterprise he began is under stress. Ashore, the lifestyle of sailors threatens the ethos of Matris and the surrounding community.

Afloat, the captains are at odds, the young officers are over-ambitious, the fleet lacks cohesion. His son Trogen has gone rogue, bringing home an unscrupulous businessman who is plotting deviously. His daughter Mairi’s exemplary captaincy is marred by accident and mischance.

Lindey hopes that if the captains and crew of all five ships compete, feast, and party, they will collaborate again.

Then a death provokes more discord and suspicion.

Can Astreya overcome his doubts and restore order? Or will distrust wreck both Matris and the fleet?

Astreya’s Sorrow is the seventh book in the Astreya saga.

River of Stones

A sequel to The Astreya Trilogy, 20 years later.

Only three stones of power remain, and only the eight descendants of Zubin can wield them. A ruthless and power-hungry man is intent on stealing the stones, murdering the three leaders of the fleet, and torturing the secrets of navigation from their children. Grand master Astreya gives his daughter Mairi command of a ship with instructions to keep the younger members of his family far from danger. However, safety is elusive. Mairi must face political turmoil ashore, resolve conflicts with her twin brother Trogen, and lead her young crew through storms, dangerous passages, and battles at sea before she can discover the secret that will lead to the river of stones. This story can be read “stand alone”.

River of Stones is available from Amazon https://www.amazon.ca/River-Stones-Seymour-Hamilton-ebook/dp/B084QJFNV3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AAQJAT8PLC7W&keywords=river+of+stones+seymour+hamilton&qid=1589474439&sprefix=River+of+Stones++%2Caps%2C137&sr=8-1

Angel’s Share

A prequel to The Astreya Trilogy

Angel’s Share is a story from the World of The Astreya Trilogy, as told to Astreya and Lindey when they returned from the Village about how Able Angel helped establish Matris. This novella will be of most interest to people who have read The Astreya Trilogy and River of Stones. The illustrations are by Shirley MacKenzie

Available at Amazon or through Ingram Spark

The Astreya Trilogy

The Astreya Trilogy chronicles the adventures of Astreya, the son of a mysterious father he never knew. In search of his strange inheritance, Astreya is deceived, betrayed and cheated, but he also finds love and makes loyal friends who help him achieve his destiny. Astreya is a tale of the sea, a mystery and a love story.

Astreya, Book 1, The Voyage South

When Astreya turns 17, his widowed mother gives him his father’s knife, a riddling notebook and a bracelet with a mysterious green stone. He sails south, hoping to understand what his father’s gifts mean. He encounters a community murdered by men cursed to sail forever, is storm-struck, betrayed by a shipmate, abandoned by his skipper, and rescued only to be enslaved. His luck changes, and he travels to The Castle. He meets a painter, Gar, who is more than he seems, and his striking assistant, Lindey. Astreya is beginning to trust Gar and hoping that Lindey might share what he is feeling, when he discovers, too late, that Gar knew more about his father’s connnection with the men whose ships wander the ocean. Astreya respects Gar’s parting words and journeys to the sea with Lindey. Just as they are about to declare their love, Astreya is kidnapped by the Men of the Sea.

Astreya, Book 2, The Men of the Sea

Aboard Cygnus, one of the great ships whose mission is to ‘shun land lest honour be lost,’ Astreya must learn how to wield the power of his stone from his grandfather, even as he yearns to return to Lindey, who is working ashore and wondering whether if they will ever meet again. Astreya’s grandfather wants to decide his future, a cousin schemes against him, an uncle wants him enslaved or dead. Who can he trust? People offer him knowledge and skills, only to turn against him or to die before they can tell him all he needs to know. As a consequence of two of these deaths, Astreya navigates Cygnus to find Lindey before his murderous, scheming uncle Mufrid does. A battle at sea ensues, involving death (real and apparent) and some revelations, more betrayals, and the need to repair damaged ships and restore Astreya and his friends to health. The book concludes with Lindey taking Astreya and his friends to Matris, the village she left to find her fortune.

Astreya, Book 3, The Wanderer’s Curse

Book three begins with Astreya and his uncle Mufrid each thinking that the other is dead. Astreya and Lindey face immediate problems with their reception in Matris, where her grandmother’s benign rule has been usurped, and the community is under pressure from a power struggle that is aggravated the arrival of Astreya and his friends. The effects of Astreya’s past adventures in book one catch up with him, while at the same time Mufrid is rekindling his search for the navigation stones that Astreya can control and he can’t. His search takes him towards Astreya’s village in the great ship Cygnus, with Astreya trying to get there first to warn and protect the people where he grew up.

Seymour Hamilton