![]() ![]() What rescues her from every crisis is her knowledge of medicine. The perils of Pauline were nothing compared with Selene's misadventures. ![]() Complications arise, and the lovers are parted when Selene returns to Palmyra, where, the Oracle has told the dying Mera, Selene will discover the secret of her destiny. And she demonstrates to him her singular gift of concentration - the summoning of her "soul flame" that heals the sick through transmission of spiritual energy. Mera seals the ring in the hollow of a carved ivory rose and moves to Antioch, where Selene meets and falls in love with the Greek physician Andreas. Mortally wounded, the father whispered to Mera, who had hidden herself with the infant girl: "Take her away from here! At once! Tonight! They must not find her! Hide her. No sooner had the wife given birth than the soldiers burst in. Mera has never known the identity of the Roman nobleman and his pregnant wife who arrived at her home, fleeing soldiers who had been sent to slay them. It is not until Mera is at death's door that 16-year-old Selene learns that this woman who has reared her is not her mother but the midwife who delivered her. In 1st-century Syria, Selene is raised from infancy by Mera, the healer woman of Palmyra. "Soul Flame," a novel set in the ancient capitals of Antioch, Persepolis, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Rome, weaves exotic adventure and medical history into a spellbinding story. ![]()
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