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Following a life of enthusiasm and excursion that has brought her through slavery to the Resurrection garden, through the controversies of the early Cathedral to a hermit cave in southern Gaul, Maeve, the Celtic Mary Magdalen, comes back to the Holy Isles combined with Sarah, her little girl with Jesus. Their mission: to find Maeve's firstborn child, taken from her by the druids more than 40 years back. Since then Maeve's homeland has experienced its own tests - Roman invasion and occupation. The Celtic tribes to the east and south are under direct rule, and the Romans are identified to rout the amount of resistance of the western tribes, amount of resistance fueled by the druids of Mona. Just before she crosses the route from Gaul to Britain, Maeve encounters a guy she flaws for Jesus' ghost. This familiar stranger is equally haunted, and both are drawn into a moonstruck liaison that will entwine their lives in "an impossible Celtic knot". For, unbeknownst to Maeve at the time, he is none other than Standard Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, the newly appointed Roman governor of Britain. Maeve will keep this troubling tryst a key even after she sees her long-lost little girl, Boudica, the fierce and charismatic queen of the Iceni tribe. Druid-trained in her youngsters, Boudica wedded the Iceni ruler, wanting to rally him to a rebellion for which he has no abdomen. Now estranged from her partner, Boudica will keep the old ways, sustained by her pride in her descent from her father (and Maeve's!): the overdue, great druid Lovernios. Wanting to circumvent catastrophe, Maeve travels backwards and forwards from Iceni country to Mona, from the heart and soul of native amount of resistance to a Roman fort on the western entrance, steadfast in her conviction: "Love is really as strong as death".
