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Also by Karen Mercury:

Blowing off Steam, June 2012
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Disorder in the House, June 2012
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Training Ivy, June 2012
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Sure as Shooting, January 2012
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A Good Prospect, October 2011
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Strangely Wonderful, December 2007
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Four Quarters of the World, September 2006
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FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD
By: Karen Mercury

Medallion Press
September 2006
400 pages
ISBN: 1932815449
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Romance Historical

One deranged Emperor unified a country. One fearless adventurer can destroy it.

Abyssinia, 1866. The crazed (some say) but dynamic Christian King of Kings has taken power as Tewodros II. His vision: to reunite Ethiopia under one crown, one God. To that end he moves his massive, gorgeously arrayed army from province to province. But rebellion is continuous and, in the end, he is Emperor of only the remote and inaccessible rock Magdala, where he holds political prisoners, spouses, and relations he's tired of and fifty Europeans.

Into the barbaric and breathtaking kingdom comes American adventurer, linguist, and ethnologist, Captain Ravinger Howland. Becoming Tewodros' right-hand man, Ravi is allowed all the privileges of a royal son: concubines, armory, all the raw beef he can eat but not the returned Queen of Sheba.

American doctor Delphine Chambliss, Tewodros believes, is the reincarnation of Makeda from who all Abyssinian kings are descended. But even as Ravi begins to question Tewodros' sanity, he falls for the bitterly bereaved Dr. Chambliss. And now, as the kingdom crumbles, Ravi and Tewodros lock horns over the woman in a battle to the death .