Sabazel
Book 1 in the Sabazel Series

May 2002
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ISBN B-000-096B5-3

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In a world rooted in Mediterranean history and mythology, armies clash, magicks compete, and the gods set their pawns onto the gameboard. Danica, a warrior-queen, is forced to form a more-than-political alliance with Bellasteros, a warrior-king, making his enemies her enemies. When she rides into battle at his side, carrying his child, his friends become her enemies, too. Trapped, with no choice but to play the game to the end, they begin to re-evaluate their loyalties. And as their worlds are torn apart by both the clash of arms and supernatural powers, Danica and Bellasteros discover that only change will save them and their child.

Reviews

"...a story told at many levels...a lot of thought-provoking conflict...what makes these books instructive...is the lessons they teach on the clash of cultures. What the author has to say is well worth reading." --John T. Sapienza, Jr, Different Worlds

"SABAZEL is the first treatment of amazon society that can be considering a major success. It has the first honest and convincing milieu with wholly believable characters. It's my idea of genuine heroic vision." --Jessica Amanda Salmonson

"A marvelous sense of romantic adventure -- strong characterizations complimented by an evocative magical poetry in the imagery." -- Borderland, 1988

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Excerpt

Note: This book was inspired by two sentences in a Smithsonian Magazine: "Which Alexander the Great shall it be? Shall it be the libertine who married three women and slept with at least four mistresses, a eunuch and even--or was this merely legend--an Amazon?"

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