Legacy of a Warrior Queen

von Maria Herring

420 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Roman conquest of Britain is shattered in 60 C.E. by Boudica, a mother, a warrior and a rebel queen, who once united the tribes against a common enemy. Now, three hundred years later, the prolonged Iron Age in Northern Europe sees the British Isles dominated by women, for these superstitious tribes believe now that only the Mother-Warrior-Queen trinity can safeguard them against any foreign foe. Women are deified; men are little more than slaves. But Arawn, slave-son of a salt merchant, believes that men have worth. When he tries to save a Pictish slave boy from sacrificial death, he accidentally murders his sister and her Druid. Having no other choice but to flee, he embarks on a journey from his British homeland across Gaul and on to Rome, seeking out the powerful priests of the new one true god, who holds men above women. He can escape the British warrior-women hunting him, but he can't escape is own demons, for the journey is long and his bitterness towards women is strong...

• Themen: Belletristik Spekulative Literatur Alternativweltgeschichten
• ISBN: 9781782797333
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2014
• Größe: 213 x 137 mm
• Verlag: Simon & Schuster Distribution Clients