Böcker av Shirley Latessa

Meekelorr dreamt of his father for the first time since starting his school years. He had put those dreams and his father's request behind a locked door years ago. And now here was Edorr, ephemeral and mournful, once again asking Meekelorr to form an army when he was old enough. Meekelorr was staring up at his father as he had all those years ago. Watching Meekelorr also was the warrior figure that Meekelorr now knew was called the Defender God. "I want you and your soldiers to go out into the Deep Earth and help those who cannot help themselves. I want you to set your army against the evil men in our world, those who prey on the weak." "No." Meekelorr looked beyond his father to the figure, who was watching him with impassive eyes. "If you want an army to fight for you, ask him. That's his task," Meekelorr said, and gestured at the Defender God. "I ask this of you." "No." "You are only angry. But the anger will disappear." "No." Edorr disappeared. The Defender God disappeared. And Meekelorr wept.

"We were there, you know," her seven-year-old daughter had said, pointing to a print of the Crucifixion, "before we came down the last time..." As she stands in Chartres Cathedral, a twenty-year-old memory erupts out of Elizabeth Layton's unconscious mind, propelling her to the Holy Land in search of the reality of reincarnation. But why is Elizabeth followed from the moment she lands at Ben-Gurion Airport? In Israel, Elizabeth encounters an American woman and two Israeli men, all at critical junctures in their lives. The novel follows the intertwined lives of the four until some resolution occurs for each, and the mystery that drives the novel along is resolved.

Lorenwile stopped mid-song. The sudden cessation of sound was so jarring that for a moment Auragole couldn't remember where he was. A rush of mindless images tumbled across his inner eye and brought him to total wakefulness, leaving him dizzy and unstable on his feet. He had been listening intently to Lorenwile, as the master singer had taken him deep into the origins of the glacier they were observing from an adjoining hillside. Lorenwile was standing stark still, his harp hanging loosely in his hand, he eyes closed. But Lorenwile was not back here, not on a treeless hill overlooking a slow-moving waterfall of frozen snow. Something was wrong. Finally, Lorenwile opened his eyes. "Get your things. We have to get back." He hummed to his horse, and without waiting to see if Auragole was following, Lorenwile was on Midnight's back, and riding downhill. As Auragole came alongside him, Lorenwile said, "It's begun. The Last Battle. The enemy struck early this afternoon." And then Lorenwile, without waiting for Auragole's response, urged his horse into a gallop. Auragole and the Last Battle is the final novel in the exciting quartet, "Auragole's Journey."

Auragole seemed to have one overriding emotion, Lorenwile observed as they walked down street after street in Mattelmead City. It was amazement. He was perpetually startled by what his eyes were taking in and what his ears were hearing. He often looked like a deer flushed out of hiding. Lorenwile had taken Auragole on several tours of the city since he had arrived. Now Auragole's fascination with the grandeur of the city both delighted Lorenwile and caused him some concern. After all, Mattelmead City could be very seductive. What would Auragole do when the Last Battle came? Would he serve the Creative Gods and tip the scale in their favor, or would he become an ally of the Nethergod and help pull the Deep Earth and all humanity away from its rightful goal? Auragole of Mattelmead is the third novel in the quartet, "Auragole's Journey."

Unable to reconcile herself to the deaths of her husband and her eldest daughter, poet Elizabeth Layton is teetering on the edge of an emotional abyss. To keep her from excessive mourning, her sister and brother pressure Elizabeth into going on a museum sponsored trip to the Aegean. The scenes in the novel are set against the exotic background of Greece, Turkey, Crete, Italy, and the sea.

Author Shirley Latessa continues the exciting adventures of Auragole in AURAGOLE OF THE WAY, the second novel in the quartet, "Auragole's Journey."

AURAGOLE OF THE MOUNTAINS is the first novel in Shirley Latessa's exciting quartet "Auragole's Journey."