SON OF THE MOON
by Jennifer
Macaire
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GENRE: Time Travel
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BLURB:
In Nysa, Alexander the Great and time traveling journalist Ashley find
their abducted son Paul being worshiped as ""the son of the
moon"". Knowing she can’t change history and that Alexander’s kingdom
will be torn apart when he dies, Ashley must make the terrible decision to
leave her firstborn son in the sacred valley.
Alexander
presses on to India, where he and Ashley are welcomed with feasts - and
treachery. They struggle through
monsoons, face the might of Porus’s army, and outwit deadly Brahmin rebels.
Facing the reality of Alexander’s looming death, Ashley considers the
unthinkable - How to save him, and the consequences of cheating the Fates. Book
III in the Time for Alexander series"
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EXCERPT
The battle that day was over by mid-morning.
Alexander lost twelve men. The enemy lost half their army and sued for peace
before noon.
Alexander was carried into the infirmary where I
was helping Usse. His ankle had been shattered by a lance.
“Are you all right?” I asked, rushing to his side.
He stared at me, sweat pouring off his face, and
his eyes two wells of pain.
“Would I come here if I was all right?” he gasped.
I sat down next to him and held his hand while Usse
took off his sandal and examined the wound. When he probed, my own hand was
nearly broken in Alexander’s grip, and I yelped.
“Sorry,” muttered the slender Egyptian doctor,
dousing the ankle with hot water mixed with different herbs. He cleansed it and
put a splint around it. There wasn’t much else he could do. Now we just had to
pray it didn’t get infected.
We stayed for three days while we organized the
peace talks with both tribes. Then Alexander decided to pull out and head
straight to Nysa. An ambassador for the Assacenian king told us that the child
of the moon was being worshipped in Nysa.
The child of the moon was Paul, my baby, now nearly
five years old. I hadn’t seen him since he was ten days old.
Alexander left two divisions behind with his
general Coenus while we took the rest of the army. We would all join up at the
Indus River.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Jennifer
Macaire lives in France with her husband, three children, & various dogs
& horses. She loves cooking, eating French chocolate, growing herbs and
flowering plants on her balcony, and playing golf. She grew up in upstate New
York, Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. She graduated from St. Peter and Paul high
school in St. Thomas and moved to NYC where she modeled for five years for
Elite. She went to France and met her husband at the polo club. All that is
true. But she mostly likes to make up stories.
Facebook
page : https://www.facebook.com/TimeforAlexander/
Twitter
: @jennnifermacaire
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION
THE AUTHOR WILL BE GIVING AWAY: $10 Amazon/BN GC
Thank you for the blog post about my book!! Love it! I'll pop by after work this evening to answer any questions - like, "What did Ashley use for toothpaste and shampoo?" :-D
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ReplyDeleteI do like the what did Ashley use for toothpaste and shampoo. Good to have you here today.
ReplyDeletetoothpaste was made from snails' shells charred and ground fine, mixed with gypsum, honey, and essential oils. In a pinch, sea salt could be used as well. Shampoo was trickier - hair was either dry or oily, depending on the soap used - Ashley used lye soap diluted as much as possible, and rinsed with vinegar when she could! Mostly she kept her hair tightly braided!
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