The Casere Series by Michael O'Neill

Although a seriously clichéd millionaire playboy, Major Connor MacLeod is nonetheless no ordinary forty-year-old millionaire playboy. A highly decorated army officer, a world champion sportsman, and a scholar with degrees in science, engineering, and classics, he has lived his twenty years of public life at full throttle. Frenemies typically describe him as arrogant, reckless, irresponsible and positively suicidal, because he has proven, to date, to be the proverbial unstoppable force... moreAlthough a seriously clichéd millionaire playboy, Major Connor MacLeod is nonetheless no ordinary forty-year-old millionaire playboy. A highly decorated army officer, a world champion sportsman, and a scholar with degrees in science, engineering, and classics, he has lived his twenty years of public life at full throttle. Frenemies typically describe him as arrogant, reckless, irresponsible and positively suicidal, because he has proven, to date, to be the proverbial unstoppable force. But all good things must come to an end. Conn has "inherited" a method of passing from this dimension to another; one that he has every reason to believe is a lot like but is most definitely not 9th Century Europe. When he takes that final step and enters the portal into this new world, will he have finally bitten off more than he can chew? AUTHORS NOTE: This is an updated and enlarged version of the current 139,000-word edition online. This version is 170,000 words in length. It is still a self-published book so, sorry, but mistakes in grammar will be found. The additional words are there to fill in gaps, create better flow and help achieve consistency. less

Major Conn MacLeod (Ret,) is no ordinary forty six year old - and he now has an even longer list of achievements to prove it. Just six years after successfully passing through a "portal" from 21st Century Earth to medieval Meshech, he is now conceivably the wealthiest man alive; master of numerous demesnes, Warlord, farmer, industrialist and merchant - and soon to be father of thirteen children... moreMajor Conn MacLeod (Ret,) is no ordinary forty six year old - and he now has an even longer list of achievements to prove it. Just six years after successfully passing through a "portal" from 21st Century Earth to medieval Meshech, he is now conceivably the wealthiest man alive; master of numerous demesnes, Warlord, farmer, industrialist and merchant - and soon to be father of thirteen children. Despite his obvious success, he is risking it all by intervening in a war that is not of his making, and is leading his small army again huge odds. His opponents are aided by the Ancuman, powerful warriors from a distant continent, who, guided by their mad Goddess, are trying conquer Meshech and turn everyone into slave - and who are taking his constant interfering extremely poorly. What happen if you "really" upset a goddess?Thankfully, he has his slave girl, the beautiful but deadly Priecuman warrior Halla, to keep him diverted and the mighty warrior, Derryth of the Twacuman, to keep him alive.With a lopsided war to fight, amorous women to placate, and an irate Goddess to elude, what could possibly go wrong? less

“Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.” PlutarchConn MacLeod, a highly decorated British Army Major has "inherited" a method of passing from his dimension (21st Century Earth) to another; one that is a lot like but definitely isn't, 9th Century Europe... more“Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.” PlutarchConn MacLeod, a highly decorated British Army Major has "inherited" a method of passing from his dimension (21st Century Earth) to another; one that is a lot like but definitely isn't, 9th Century Europe. After thirty years of planning and preparation for the "trip", it doesn't take him long to utilize his extensive knowledge and extraordinary skills - and the not insignificant amount of gold that he takes with him - to reshape the world that he had just "invaded" into one of his own making. Wouldn't you? However, he starts to have a niggling feeling that, perhaps, it not just luck but something more "sinister" behind him being in Meshech, and he is "here" for a greater purpose than his own enjoyment. That purpose is not disclosed to him after he expels the Ancuman from Meshech and returns the continent to peace, so perhaps the answer is not in Meshech but in Sytha, a continent a lifetime away, and where the first Casere once ruled.With little alternative, he prepares an armada of ships to visit the "old world", in true Conn MacLeod style. If nothing else, there are a lot of Ancuman wiga out there that he can annoy, more women to seduce and more money to make. Given everything he has a achieved so far, he thought it should be easy. That was his first mistake, and it went downhill from there. less