The statue of a Greek archer, found in the temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina, just offshore of Athens. The temple was built circa 600 BC. This statue is a 3D printed copy of the original and painted to what they think it looked like back then. –currently on display at the “Chroma”…
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The first chapter from the third Eye of Isis novel. prologos “How deep is it?” In spite of every effort to keep it steady, Henu heard the tremor in his voice. “If you fall in you won’t care because you’ll be dead, and if you don’t fall in you won’t care because you’ll be rich,…
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From the second novel in the Eye of Isis series. 4 His last remark had interfered with her dreams and was interfering again with her work the following morning. What did he mean, when, not where? She felt he was being unnecessarily cryptic. It annoyed her. Men were supposed to be simple and easy to…
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The third chapter from the second novel in the Eye of Isis series 3 They parted from their new friends when they reached the Way, crossing it to walk through the Emporeum. Here, Tetisheri was obliged to stop and say hello to every shopkeeper and business rival who called out her name, which was most…
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The second chapter of the second novel in the Eye of Isis series. 2 Apollodorus was waiting for her at the bottom of the marble steps that ran the length of the building. He was facing the Way, a broad boulevard stretching the breadth of the city from the Gate of the Sun in the…
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The first chapter of the second novel in the Eye of Isis series. 1 The scroll was written in Greek. The hand was neat, the label tied to the scroll easily read. The sixteenth máthima of the twenty-seventh Eye of Isis By her own hand for the record Twelfth Bay, Seventh Shelf The Room of…
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The second chapter of the first novel in the Eye of Isis series, set in Alexandria in the time of Cleopatra. 2 (Part 2) “What are you working on?” Tetisheri said. The queen watched the pot as it came back to a boil. “Dried powdered willow bark ground fine, pomegranate juice, and honey.” “What’s it…
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The second chapter of the first novel in the Eye of Isis series, set in Alexandria in the time of Cleopatra. 2 (Part 1) on the morning of the Tenth Day of the Second Week at the Sixth Hour… Nebenteru’s Luxury Goods boasted a prime central location on Hermes Street, which followed the docks lining…
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When a new book comes out, sometimes people give the author gifts to celebrate. When you have a new Eye of Isis book out, they give you a Sphinx rubber duck filled with lip balm. Life can hold no more. The first two novels in the Eye of Isis series. Order on Amazon.USOrder on Amazon.UK…
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Join me tonight at 7pm at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale for the launch of Theft of an Idol, the third Eye of Isis novel! Middle Sea sensation Herminia has vanished just before the curtain rises on a controversial production of Lysistrata. The last person to see her alive has been most foully murdered.…
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