Mother of Souls

At last Return to the enchanted realm of Alpennia for the eagerly awaited sequel to Daughter of Mystery and The Mystic Marriage.

All her life, Serafina Talarico has searched in vain for a place where she and her mystical talents belong. She never found it in Rome--the city of her birth--where her family's Ethiopian origins marked them as immigrants. After traveling halfway across Europe to study with Alpennia's Royal Thaumaturgist, her hopes of finding a home among Margerit Sovitre's circle of scholars are dashed, for Serafina can perceive, but not evoke, the mystical forces of the Mysteries of the Saints and even Margerit can't awaken her talents.

When Serafina takes lodgings with Luzie Valorin, widowed music teacher and aspiring composer, both their lives are changed forever. Luzie's music holds a power to rival the Mysteries, and Serafina alone has the vision to guide her talents. For sorcery threatens the fate of Alpennia--indeed of all of Europe--locking the mountains in a malevolent storm meant to change the course of history. Alpennia's mystic protections are under attack and the key to survival may lie in the unlikeliest of places: Luzie's ambition to write an opera on the life of the medieval philosopher Tanfrit.

Author: Heather Rose Jones
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 11/29/2016
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781594935176
ISBN10: 1594935173
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | Regency
- Fiction | Romance | Fantasy
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Lesbian

About the Author
Heather Rose Jones is the author of the "Skin Singer" stories in the Sword and Sorceress anthology series, as well as non-fiction publications on topics ranging from biotech to historic costumes to naming practices.

Visitors to her social media will find the Lesbian Historic Motif Project she began to change the unexamined assumptions about the place and nature of lesbian-like characters in historic fact, literature, art and imaginations. She has a PhD from U.C. Berkeley in Linguistics, specializing in the semantics of Medieval Welsh prepositions, and works as an industrial discrepancy investigator for a major Bay Area pharmaceutical company.