LAUNCH PARTY: Elizabeth Cunningham, "Red-Robed Priestess"
This event will be held at Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY.
Join us as we launch the final book in Elizabeth Cunningham's The Maeve Chronicles.
7:00pm - Reception
7:30pm - Reading & Signing
After a life of passion and adventure
that has brought her through slavery to the Resurrection Garden, through the
controversies of the Early Church to a hermit cave in southern Gaul, Maeve, the
Celtic Magdalen, finally comes full circle. At the urging of Sarah, her daughter
by Jesus, Maeve returns to the British Isles to seek her first-born daughter,
who was stolen from her by the druids more than forty years ago.
The night before her channel crossing, Maeve encounters a man she first mistakes
for Jesus' ghost. This familiar stranger is equally haunted, and the two are
drawn into a moonstruck liaison that will entwine their lives in "an impossible
Celtic knot." He is none other than General Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, the newly
appointed Roman Governor of Britain, destined to defeat the Iceni Queen Boudica
in one of the bloodiest battles in history.
And Boudica, the Celtic rebel queen, is none other than Maeve's long lost child.
Fully accessible to new readers, Red-Robed Priestess will be deeply satisfying
to fans who have accompanied Maeve on her journey, reuniting them with beloved
characters from the earlier novels, especially Magdalen Rising.
At sixty something, Maeve is as feisty as ever, her distinctive sense of
irreverent humor very much intact, but she has also grown—and so has the author.
In this final volume of the critically acclaimed Maeve Chronicles, Elizabeth
Cunningham confronts a political and emotional complexity that speaks to our
times. Maeve's courageous and compassionate witness of an epic tragedy she
cannot prevent will challenge and comfort all of us who have ever faced
intractable circumstances of our own.
