Soul Flame - Softcover

Wood, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596528656 ISBN 13: 9781596528659

Publisher: Turner, 2012

Synopsis

Acclaimed novelist Barbara Wood combines her superb storytelling gifts with medical and historical fact to create the epic adventure of an unusual and gifted young woman seeking her destiny in the ancient healing arts.

Born into the tumultuous world of ancient Antioch, Selene is orphaned at birth. But before her father dies, he leaves a puzzling clue to her heritage: she has come from the gods and has a special destiny to fulfill. In the coming years, Selene studies the primitive healing arts with Mera, the healer-woman who adopts her. She learns how to lower fevers by brewing Hecate's Cure from the willow tree, how to apply green mold to an open wound to prevent infection, and most important, how to calm a patient by summoning the inner power of the "soul flame." But on her sixteenth birthday, Selene falls in love with Andreas, a passionate and troubled surgeon. When fate cruelly separates them, Selene's search for Andreas takes her to the great centers of civilization in the ancient world—Egypt, Babylon, and Rome. Desperate to find Andreas, Selene is torn between love and her dreams of healing when a revolutionary vision brings her to the fulfillment of her destiny—and the dawn of modern medicine.

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About the Author

BARBARA WOOD is the international bestselling author of twenty-five acclaimed novels, including New York Times bestseller Domina. Her work has been translated into over 30 languages. Barbara lives in California.

From Library Journal

A dying Roman fugitive whispers his newborn daughter's soul name and then pronounces her life name, Selene. Raised in Antioch by the healer-woman who delivered her, at 16 Selene begins the outward quest for her lost identity. But when she concentrates on her inner flame, her soul flame, she has a special healing power. Her medical ability helps her survive slavery in a desert fortress, wandering with Bedouins, and sojourns in Persia, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Rome. Accepted in Rome as the granddaughter of Cleopatra and Caesar, she begins her lifelong dream: to build a house of healing, or hospital. Nero and his mother scheme against her. The many subplots in this historical romance are woven together by the three threads of ancient religion, history, and medical lore. Wood is the author of Vital Signs, another novel with a medical backdrop. Patricia Y. Morton, State Lib. of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Turner
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1596528656
• ISBN 13: 9781596528659
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 396