Queen of Time

Carolyn Kephart's latest novel veers away from fantastic realms and plunges into the gritty here and now, but unreality remains a compelling, disquieting constant. What if myth and legend became reality, and gave you everything you'd never dared to dream of? Classics professor Lucasta Hilary's lackluster routine in Midwest academia changes forever thanks to seeming quirks of fate that bring her unexpected fame and inexplicable beauty, but her good fortune soon proves to be very far from heaven sent. Two eternal adversaries seek to alter Lucasta's destiny, in a struggle that spans eons and ranges from the bleak remains of Hadrian's Wall to the lush jungles of the Yucatan highlands to the very edge of existence, where temptation, damnation, and redemption inextricably entwine.