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Monkfish Book Pub Co
November 2011
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Featuring: Maeve
350 pages
ISBN: 0982324693
EAN: 9780982324691
Kindle: B0068T9D50
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical | Fiction
After a life of passion and adventure that has brought her
through slavery to the Resurrection garden, through the
controversies of the Early Church to a hermit cave in
southern gaul, Maeve, the Celtic Mary Magdalen, returns to
the Holy Isles accompanied by Sarah, her daughter with
Jesus. Their mission: to find Maeve's first-born child,
stolen from her by the druids more than forty years ago. Since then, Maeve's homeland has suffered it's own trials--
Roman invasion and occupation. The Celtic tribes to the east
and south are under direct rule, and the Romans are
determined to rout the resistance of the western tribes,
resistance fueled by the druids of Mona. Just before she crosses the channel from Gaul to Britain,
Maeve encounters a man she mistakes for Jesus's ghost. This
familiar stranger is equally haunted, and the two are drawn
into a moonstruck liason that will entwine their lives in
"an impossible Celtic knot." For unbeknownst to Maeve at the
time, he is none other than General Gaius Suetonius
Paulinus, the newly-appointed Roman Governor of Britain. Maeve keeps this troubling tryst a secret even after she
finds her long-lost daughter Boudica, the fierce and
charismatic queen of the Iceni tribe. Druid-trained in her
youth, Boudica married the Iceni king, hoping to rally him
to a rebellion for which he has no stomach. Now estranged
from her husband, Boudica keeps the old ways, sustained by
her pride in her descent form her father (and Maeve's!) the
late great druid Lovernios. Seeking to circumvent disaster, Maeve travels back and forth
from Iceni country to Mona, from the heart of native
resistance to a Roman fort on the Western front, steadfast
in her conviction: "Love is as strong as death."
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