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Wine of the Dreamers
LOVE'S MYSTERIOUS MIRROR
Meryt was a prized young beauty in the Egypt of the Pharaohs, whose life turned into a nightmare when she became a pawn in a royal game of ruthless politics and hideous passions.
Aimee was a lovely, sheltered young lady in nineteenth-century France, whose innocene savagely ended when she was sold into a marriage of callous convenience and unspeakable corruption.
What was the strange connection between these two tormented victims of men's lusts and their own need for love? What secret strand of destiny stretched over thirty centuries to bind their fates together?
Here is the spellbinding romantic novel that spans two continents and three thousand years in time to tell the story of two beautiful women whose lives were darkened by illicit passions and forbidden loves - and whose destinies were mysteriously interlocked
Meryt was a prized young beauty in the Egypt of the Pharaohs, whose life turned into a nightmare when she became a pawn in a royal game of ruthless politics and hideous passions.
Aimee was a lovely, sheltered young lady in nineteenth-century France, whose innocene savagely ended when she was sold into a marriage of callous convenience and unspeakable corruption.
What was the strange connection between these two tormented victims of men's lusts and their own need for love? What secret strand of destiny stretched over thirty centuries to bind their fates together?
Here is the spellbinding romantic novel that spans two continents and three thousand years in time to tell the story of two beautiful women whose lives were darkened by illicit passions and forbidden loves - and whose destinies were mysteriously interlocked
538 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1980
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Susannah Leigh
13 books6 followersSusannah Leigh was born in Minneapolis and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. After graduating from the University of Minnesota she moved on to New York City, where she worked at a variety of jobs and appeared in many off-Broadway productions. She stayed in New York for twelve years and then left for a year of traveling to such spots as Morocco, Nepal, and Afghanistan.
Ms. Leigh is currently living in West Los Angeles, where she spends her non-writing time indulging her interests in reading, travel, history, and lying in the sun.
Ms. Leigh is currently living in West Los Angeles, where she spends her non-writing time indulging her interests in reading, travel, history, and lying in the sun.
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September 4, 2015
Two characters 3000 years apart, but living almost parallel lives.
Wonderful history, writing, characters. Not just a romance but a meticulously plotted and well researched historical saga.
Wonderful history, writing, characters. Not just a romance but a meticulously plotted and well researched historical saga.
March 11, 2013
Parallel stories of Meryt, Egyptian princess, forced to marry a man she doesn't love, for political purposes, and Aimee, the pampered daughter of a Parisian merchant, also forced into an arranged marriage. Aimee's greedy husband believes he can make another fortune in Egypt, so he hires an ethical but broke archaeologist hot on the trail of an undiscovered royal tomb. The archaeologist is hot in other ways, and the tomb they discover belongs to an Egyptian princess... named Meryt. And what is the secret of the chalice left on the Egyptian woman's tomb?
May 27, 2011
This is one of the best books I have ever read.
April 23, 2020
Two romances in past Egypt, one in current day. Good read for a quarantine day.
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