Cauldron of Dagda: The Witch's Rebirth - Part II

11-TIME AWARD WINNER · THE WITCH'S REBIRTH SERIES · BOOK 2

An ancient relic. An immortal love. A Byzantine Empire on the brink of annihilation.

540 AD. Constantinople fractures under the weight of political intrigue — and something far
older and far darker is rising beneath the chaos. A soul-devouring contagion is spreading through
the Eastern Roman Empire, and it cannot be outrun, bargained with, or stopped by any mortal hand.

Only one person stands between humanity and extinction. Merona. The Witch.

Her only weapon is the Cauldron of Dagda — a legendary Celtic relic of mythic power and
humanity's absolute last hope. Merona is its sole protector. But wielding it carries a price no
warrior can afford: it demands a piece of her sanity with every strike.

She does not stand alone. At her side is Murdach — fierce, immortal, a shapeshifting dragon
whose unwavering loyalty is surpassed only by a love forged across millennia. Joined by a fearsome
goddess of war and a wise seer, this fractured alliance faces impossible odds in a world of
pulse-pounding sword and sorcery, deadly ancient spells, and breathless, thriller-paced survival.

But the truest battle is inward. Merona feels the pull toward Murdach — a connection older than
the empire crumbling around them — and it threatens to unravel everything she has fought to become.
To defeat the coming cataclysm, she must wield a power that destroys her from within. Their cyclic,
heavy pasts have circled back. This time, they either rise together or fall forever.

Meticulous historical detail. Ancient Celtic mythology. A morally complex heroine at the edge
of her own destruction.

If you crave dark historical fantasy with psychological stakes and a witch thriller that never
lets you breathe — the Cauldron is waiting.

► Return to the multi-award-winning Witch's Rebirth saga. Pick up Book 2 today.

Michaela Riley writes at the intersection of myth and memory - where the past doesn't stay buried, and survival always costs something.Based in the mountains and forests of Virginia, she has spent years tracing the threads of her ancestral heritage through genealogical research and the winding trails she hikes with her German Shepherd, Morrigan, and terrier mix, Carlos. What she found in that pursuit - the patterns of sacrifice, identity fracture, and hard-won endurance that repeat across generations - became the architecture of The Witch's Rebirth series.Her fiction does not borrow from mythology. It excavates it. The death-rebirth cycle at the heart of Merona's story emerges directly from Michaela's confrontation with what her ancestors endured, and what they passed forward - whether they meant to or not. The Virginia trails she walks are not background. They are the labyrinth.An 11-time award-winning author, Michaela also writes dark suspense and criminal thriller fiction under the same unflinching moral lens - most recently in Critics' Requiem and Dark Scales of Justice.