Virgin

by Elle Lothlorien

For I dare not say”"though I have my suspicions, I keep silent. Perhaps, just as her death is not to be found, so I may have found some traces of the holy and blessed Virgin.” -Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, 377 A.D.

In Mexico City, cult researcher Paul Savannah is doing what he does best: fueling controversy and drawing media attention at a lecture for his new, wildly speculative book on the Virgin Mary and the Catholic Church. What he doesn’t know is that he’s accidentally stumbled on the truth of one of the Church’s greatest secrets and biggest hoaxes.

In Denver, Colorado, DNA expert Kendra Kelvin tries to make sense of the impossible: a DNA profile that matches more than a dozen other women, each of them possessing a genetic mutation called the “parthenos gene,” and all of them mysteriously murdered”"except one.

Unbeknownst to either of them, a religious war over a woman has raged in secret, hidden from the eyes of the world, for millennia. And what they don’t know could get them killed. Forced to fight for their lives in a battle not of their making, Paul and Kendra become unwitting players as a mysterious prophecy from the Book of Revelation unfolds before their eyes.

Because the Virgin Birth was just the beginning…

425 pages, Unknown Binding

First published December 6, 2012

About the author

A “military brat,” Elle Lothlorien was born in Germany and spent her childhood in such far-flung places as Puerto Rico, Charleston, S.C., Italy, and Washington D.C. Sadly, the only language she ever became semi-fluent in is English. She writes romantic comedies that are loose riffs on the popular fairy tales she read as a child–stories she still loves as an adult. Elle’s first self-published romantic comedy, The Frog Prince, became an Amazon bestseller in 2010–a distinction it kept through the summer of 2012 when it peaked at #1 on Amazon’s Top 100 List for Humor. Her female characters are known for their snarky attitude, intelligence, quick wit, and a near-universal lack of interest in designer shoes and haute couture.

Before writing rom-com full-time, Elle worked as an administrator overseeing clinical research studies at the University of Colorado. Her scattershot work history also includes everything from running fire and rescue calls as an EMT to managing movie theaters to locating underground utilities to stay-at-home mom, although she readily admits that getting paid to sit around in her PJs all day dreaming up hot, amazing men who are good enough for her novel’s heroines is, hands-down, the most rewarding job she’s ever had. Elle lives in the Rocky Mountain Foothills, mostly because she’s deathly afraid of man-eating sharks and understands that, while they’ve successfully infiltrated every ocean on the globe, they’ve never quite managed to adapt to mountain living. She keeps a teenage boy and a miniature dachshund named Bacon Bourgeois of Legend around the house to provide comic relief.

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Reviews

[Thibaut Nicodème · Rating 1 out of 5]

See my review of her other book for more information.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a different book, but it was a very good read.