With a Roman father and Ligurian mother, Aurelia has grown up amidst the rocky hillsides and lavender-scented fields of first century Provence. On her way to meet the man her family wants Aurelia to marry, a druid warns her that she is charged to "remember the goddess's face." His words are a mystery. But then in one violent night of death and destruction, his prophesy begins to come clear.
Aurelia finds herself pregnant and far from home, consumed by the need to keep secrets that would condemn both her and her baby. Despite her distance, she also knows it's her duty to restore the goddess's shrine that was desecrated on the night that she became pregnant.
When Aurelia meets Simon the Magus and Mary Magdalene, her story becomes part of what will become the secret tradition of the feminine face of god within Christianity.
Nimue, by Burne-Jones
About Me
- Kristen Marie Hannum
- I finished writing my first historical fiction novel, The Magician, in April 2009. I'm now at work on something completely different, Caveman, about a Denver dentist running for governor.
I wrote for The Catholic Sentinel for 16 years, and love the Church anyway, in particular the Church of Archbishop Romero and Dorothy Day; of Rerum Novarum and Catholic Relief Services. As one woman once told me, "It's a matter of heart, not head."
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