This was an purchase made after seeing the Pompeii exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. What an unexpected treasure this find turned out to be. This book was an incredible journey that had you gripping the edge of your seat as you turned the pages. Beautifully written characters and...
"Tell us something, Tessa. Tell us the most important thing you have learned as a hetaera.""Soon, very soon, you will start to feel that there is something cold like a stone in your heart. Let that cold part of you grow, let it spread to all of you, until you are nothing more than a breathing pie...
It died a gurgling death in her throat, then fell to the pit of her belly.She put a hand to her mouth to keep it from returning, felt the gore smear her face, and yanked the hand away.The whites of Ying’s eyes, shot through with blood trails, refracted the moonlight like shattered alabaster. Her ...
Another week had passed since the Roman soldiers had infested her lighthouse, and Sophia thought she might be losing her mind, trapped as she was in her chambers and her garden. Though they had long been her only places of refuge and solace, she found that being confined there against her will pl...
Did Herod know who was involved in the attempted escape?He paced the head of the room, punctuating angry words with furious gestures. His dark, oiled curls swung with each upraised fist, and torchlight reflected from the gold band across his forehead like a third eye. Salome stood alongside, arms...
She knew the guards were there ahead, but somehow all else faded from view, and she ran through a dark tunnel. She heard herself yell something, she knew not what, as though the empty place inside had a voice of its own. Somewhere in the middle of the hall she met up with the two guards. One of t...