July 3 Giveaway
ANCIENT MUSINGS
by Skhye Moncrief
Rating: HOT
Disgusted with her lack of purpose, Calliope is learning all too well the warning in be careful what you wish for. She challenged Zeus and landed in Hades. Now she needs to reach Gaia’s pool to save herself from the Land of the Dead’s darkness. Little did she expect a psyche to reveal the path to tomorrow.
The soul of archaeologist, Jake Genoese, is bored to tears until he finds the beautiful Calliope, intriguing and bearing the token he needs to jumpstart his day-excursion on the afterlife’s cruise to nowhere.
One’s light brightens the other’s future as Olympians vie
for power by toying with psyches in the
Sounds like another great story from Skyhe!
Rhonda
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Hello, I like the time period that Skhye's books are written in. Thanks.....Cindi
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I had a blast doing the research to set this story up for the opening of the fantasy series SONG OF THE MUSES. I used a book on Western thoughts of death and the afterlife to recreate the ancient Greek underworld. Then I juxtaposed the ancient Greek ideas with that of an archaeologist's spirit in the underworld. Her ancient Greek ideas verses his Western science...
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Read chapter 1:
http://blog.skhyemoncrief.com/2008/04/22/skhye-moncriefs-ancient-musings.aspx
Down the dank mouldering paths
and past the Ocean’s streams they went
and past the White Rock
and the sun’s Western Gates
and past the Land of Dreams,
and soon they reached the fields of asphodel
where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths
of mortals make their homes…
~(Odyssey 24.5-9)
www.skhyemoncrief.com
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I've had the good fortune to read some of Skhye's work. Her books are a unique blend of contemporary and historical fantasy. You really can't go wrong.
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Sounds interesting. I'd like to enter please.
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You're in!
The winner is announced tomorrow.
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