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Justine Saracen

Justine Saracen is something of an “old hand,” having traveled to the dense streets and markets of much of the Arab world, in Egypt, Morocco, and the West Bank.  After two trips to the Ptolemaic temples along the Nile, however, she lost her heart to the desert and its ancient cultures.  Together with Egyptologist Angelique Corthals, she became immersed in the colorful theology that “lives” in the temples and tombs of Egypt.  Speculation on how much fun it would be to throw together the Egyptian gods and the modern world, and to put a lesbian at the center of it all, led to the Ibis Prophecy books. The first novel of the series, The 100th Generation, was a finalist in the Queerlit Competition.

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The Ibis Prophecy: Book One

The 100th Generation

The 100th Generation

 2007 Ann Bannon GCLS Popular Choice Award Finalist

Ancient curses, modern day villains, and a most intriguing woman who keeps appearing when least expected and then…disappearing. 

Archeologist Valerie Foret has spent a year searching for a tomb in the Egyptian desert—a labor broken only by high risk trysts with a powerful man’s wife. When she finally makes the discovery of a lifetime, she is set upon by jealous rivals and religious fanatics. Worse, she is drawn into the depths of the desert by forces that offer knowledge of vast mysteries and at the same time threaten to destroy everything she knows. For what she’s found is a glimpse into the hereafter, and it’s nothing like it’s supposed to be.  

Brilliant scientist that she is, she has loved most unwisely and learned what she does not want to know. Follow her adventures through modern and ancient Egypt, through this world and the next, with Book One of the Ibis Prophecy.

The Ibis Prophecy: Book Two

Vulture's Kiss

Vulture's Kiss by Justine Saracen

Valerie Foret—archeologist and heir to a terrifying task—returns in a powerful desert adventure set in Egypt and Jerusalem, in both modern and medieval times.

On the eve of the release of Valerie Foret’s great chronicle, Valerie learns that hers is not the 100th generation of the prophecy at all. In grappling with a mysterious and lethal opponent, Valerie witnesses the horrors of the first Crusade in which her ancestors, both innocent and malevolent, have carried out a drama identical to her own. The weapon that succeeded then and now threatens once again is the terrible power of faith. Will the outcome be the same?

In the course of fleeing the forces of violent fundamentalism, Valerie, a westerner, and Najya Khoury, an Arab-Israeli, fall in love and find out just how dangerous it is to challenge accepted "truth."

Justine can be contacted at JustineSaracen

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