Description:

A post-modern historical romance novel of the ancient mysteries.

With profound love for humanity and avant-garde prose, a leading Pagan visual artist has produced a book of our time to set beside Apuleius, Boccaccio and Chaucer. Frank, lyrical, philosophical and funny, it is fundamentally a romance. A woman who wants children meets a man scarred by war, and their whole worlds intersect.

Imagine a society with great expertise at crafting spiritual experience. We find it in ancient Greece and find a thrilling story there. The pilgrimage to Eleusis - premiere religious festival of a society where religion is the greatest art - has been challenged by brute force.

A priestess and conqueror fall in love, set out to seek healing, and find happiness centuries later. Along the way there is dazzling beauty and fearful ugliness. And sex. Intercourse is presented as a key to love and love as the key to all that is good.

You can read or download this as an e-book at www.stoneriley.com.