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Four Quarters of the World
Karen Mercury
Medallion Press
September 2006
400 pages ISBN: 1932815449 Paperback
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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 .
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