![]() ![]() Revered for her beautiful singing voice, the young slave is invited to perform at the city’s Great Library, where she becomes friends with the revered mathematician and philosopher, Hypatia, as well as other pagans who curate its magnificent collections. In the bloody clash between Christians and pagans in fifth-century Alexandria, a servant girl becomes the last hope for preserving peace in this evocative and thrilling tale-a blend of history, adventure, religion, romance, and mysticism reminiscent of The Mists of Avalon.Īfter she is abducted from her home in the mountains of Sinai, Hannah is enslaved and taken to Alexandria, where she becomes the property of Alizar, an alchemist and pagan secretly working to preserve his culture. ![]() ![]() Fans of The Mists of Avalonwill find this romantic/alchemical/feminist/spiritual epic equally captivating.”- Tom Robbins, bestselling author of Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. and Villa Incognito “ Written in the Ashesis one of those rare novels that sets ‘history’ afire, to bathe readers in the glow of a greater, hotter truth. ![]() This post was most recently updated on February 23rd, 2017 Written In the Ashes by K. ![]()
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