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A Memoir by Historical Fiction Author, Sally Watson. The memories of a child born in 1924: a kitten in a kennel, totally out of step with her peers but dancing to her own piper. With neither the will nor inclination to conform, Sally flatly refused even to consider the limited choice for women then: wife, mother, nurse, schoolteacher or typist. Gifted with fierce independence and a driving curiosity that has never waned; a flair for writing, a passion for wordss, colors, patterns, and a strong sense of the absurd, she has created 25 published books, her own destiny and a joyous and ...

England, 1651. The civil war is over, the king beheaded, the Lennexes fled into exile in France - all but Cecily, married to Ian in Scotland and Lark, the youngest of the siblings, who is being held in durance vile by her Puritan uncle. Quietly stubborn, she runs away, intending to go to Cecily - perhaps two or three days walk? Never makes it, of course. Falls into trouble at once, is rescued by one James Trelawney, a Royalist spy who seriously underestimates her age. They then keep rescuing each other all over the West Country while they hunt for the people who are finding and rescuing ...

The time was 1644 in Inverness, Scotland. As the "wicked wee lass" raced along the steep streets, just ahead of the stones and cries of briosag! hurled at her, she wished with all her heart that she were a witch. What a spell she would put on them all! For all her seventeen years, Kelpie could remember nothing but belonging to Mina and Bogle, gypsies who lived by their evil wits. The only law any of them knew was that of self-preservation. Bogle said she had been kidnaped because of her blue ringed eyes of the "Second Sight," and she often wondered from where. A castle, perhaps? Nobility? ...

Her name was Melanie Lennox, but she preferred to be called Jade. "Swords, adventure, freedom," sixteen year old Melanie cried," and I'll pay any price!" Driven by her courageous, independent spirit and hatred of slavery, Jade attempts to release a ship's cargo of slaves destined for bondage in Virginia. While she is being publicly flogged for her efforts, the ship is captured by pirates, and Jade, undaunted and realizing her opportunity for adventure, decides to join them.

A paraquel to Sally Watson's The Next Pharaoh. Daughter of Sekhmet covers the same time frame as The Next Pharaoh with the same theme and central question, featuring virtually the same cast of characters -- only shifting some major roles. All this with a brand new star! Mirith, nee Lilith, seizes the lead from her first nightmare on Page 1 -- before Horemheb even arrived.... "....Egyptian gods were not like any others. None, of course, were to be confused with The Great Oneness, a single unity; divinely transcendent, eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, formless, timeless, numinous, ...