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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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Sistine Heresy (February 2009)
Excerpt
Eros,
art, and gorgeous blasphemy…
Adrianna
Borgia, survivor of the Borgia court, presents Michelangelo with the
greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with
soul-threatening desires and heresies. Her growing passion for the painter
Raphaela Bramante mirrors the sculptor’s damnable interest in a castrato in
the Sistine choir and in the ideas of secular humanism. Claimed as the
epitome of Christian inspiration, Michelangelo’s ceiling is revealed as a
coup of Eros upon religion, a gorgeous blasphemy and a paean to forbidden
love in the very heart of the Church.
A Liberty Editions novel
Mephisto Aria (January 2010)
Is the history of a dangerous love affair destined to be repeated?
At
the height of her career, opera singer Katherina Marov is stunned by her
father’s suicide. Reading his journals, she learns of his dark days as a
soldier on the Russian front and in war-torn Berlin. She cannot condemn him
for his crimes and secrets, though, for while she is learning of his demons,
she is discovering her own. The stage-world she lives in draws her into an
ecstatic realm beyond good and evil and she is tempted, as he was, by a love
for a woman that could destroy her. Has she too made a devil’s pact? And if
so, will she pay for it, as her father did, with her life?
Current Releases...
The Ibis Prophecy Series
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The 100th
Generation.
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
2007
Ann Bannon Popular Choice GCLS Award Finalist |
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Vulture's Kiss.
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."
2nd in
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