Peaks and Valleys Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy by Stephanie Dray
Main Page Novels Genre Short Stories Journal Mainstream Short Stories Articles Essays Reviews	Novels Cleopatra’s Daughter: Heir to one Empire, Prisoner of Another. Forty years before the birth of Christ a child is heralded as the Messiah. Her name is Selene, daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Antony. To the Isiac faith sweeping the region, Selene and her twin brother Helios represent the divine celestial pair who will bring about the Golden Age; thier birthright is the entire world. But this auspicious childhood becomes a curse when Selene’s parents are vanquished by Rome and driven to suicide. A prisoner of war, Selene cannot hide from her captors the hieroglyphic messages that carve themselves into her flesh and the Emperor decides to use the young Egyptian stigmata for his own ends. Trapped within a country that reviles her heritage and is suspicious of her faith, Selene is now forced to choose between loyalty and survival. Elik’s Shadow When Elianos Firgalik wanted a city, he brutally conquered it, utterly demoralizing its citizens and letting the blood and smoke flow thick through the streets. When he disliked the pressures that came with his inheritance, he left the grand clan of his birth to found his own wilderness kingdom loyal to him and him alone. When he wanted a foreign-born woman who refused him, he splintered the kingdom in political trade for her hand in marriage, and imprisoned her in his fortress. Conqueror, pioneer, and rugged individualist, Elianos relied upon no one and lived a life seemingly immune from the consequences of his actions. That is, until his only son was killed in reckoning for Elianos’ sins against the gods.
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