The Twisted Rib

by Rachel Summers

Told backward to unwrite a mistaken duality, The Twisted Rib is a modern-day untelling of seven Biblical heroines long maligned as sinful, wicked, and willful. Embracing these stigmatized women, however, may well lead to enlightenment such is the purpose of their nightly amours at the Sancto Erotica, a legendary whorehouse straddling the very edge of our reality.

458 pages, Paperback

Published October 9, 2015

About the author

A Ph.D. shelved in lieu of research inverted and traditional values abandoned, the work of Rachel Summers is what some have called a journey into antinomian mysteriosophy where socially sanctioned morality is turned on its head in order to shake out just a few drops of enlightenment. Summers holds degrees in History, Comparative religions, English Literature, and Philosophy, all centered on the late medieval era. Her first novel, CondAmnation, is a retelling of that era’s favored heroine Joan of Arc. Summers’ Joan, however, is not a holy virgin, not a Christian, and certainly nobody’s good girl. Neither, for that matter, is Summers.