Böcker av Tracy Higley

In an ancient city carved from stone, a desperate woman searches for peace.In AD 106, a single mother can be certain of one thing¿destitution.Cassia flees to Petra with her six-year-old son to seek refuge in the loving arms of family, but discovers the great stone city is not what she imagined.And family cannot be trusted.When a secret reveals her son's true bloodline, the boy becomes the target of a royal conspiracy, led by a queen who serves demonic power.Now in her darkest hour, Cassia encounters followers of The Way, a subversive religious group whose disciples are frequently sentenced to arenas with starved lions and blood-soaked sand.Will they seek out more danger by helping her?And what will it take to save her son from the powers of darkness?

A jealous Egyptian queen.A lascivious Galilean governor.How can one servant girl possibly make a difference?An orphan since birth, Lydia lives in the palace at the demand of Cleopatra and her royal child, the son of Julius Caesar.But Lydia's beauty is becoming a liability to the aging queen, and the visiting Herod's undisguised interest in Lydia only makes matters worse.When Lydia's mentor is murdered, the handmaid inherits a daunting task. An ancient set of sealed scrolls, the secret writings of the prophet Daniel, must be returned to Jerusalem-before those who killed her mentor destroy the scrolls as well.Lydia joins Herod the Great's retinue and soon becomes absorbed in the machinations of his Jerusalem palace.But dark forces, older than Jerusalem itself, are at work.And Lydia has no idea of the true nature of her destiny.

A city on the brink of disaster. A slave girl with a deadly secret.Disguised as a young man, Ariella escapes life as a Jewish slave in Rome, only to be sold into a traveling gladiator troupe.Waiting for her moment to gain fame and then freedom, she keeps her identity secret.But when she arrives to fight in Pompeii, a Roman politician-turned-winemaker shows too much curiosity, and Ariella must harden her heart against Cato's interest.And then there's Jeremiah, the aged barracks slave who whispers of a new sect of Jews called Christians, who offer a different way of life.All the while, Vesuvius looms over the city, churning with deadly intent.It's getting harder to protect her heart.Corrupt politics and religious persecution throw Cato and Ariella together, but time is running out.Pompeii will soon be lost to the world under an onslaught of fiery ash.Can the two bridge their differences, to save the lives of those they love?

For a Time Traveler, the Future is Never Guaranteed.Sahara Aldridge, a young Egyptologist in 1922,is mastering the genetic surprise of time travel.She's survived a murderous vizier in King Tut's Egypt, and taken on ancient Roman aristocrats bent on deposing Nero.She's even managed to open her heartto the charming Jack Moretti, despite the shocking secret he's finally divulged.But when the next clue to finding her parentslands her in an ancient Egyptian assassination attempt, Sahara's tinkering with the past just might erase her future.Skimming across the lofty pyramids of ancient Egypt to the elegant canals of 18th century Venice, the answers to Sahara's desperate search for belonging seem only a breath away.But an old score must be settled, and an old feud reconciled,before she can face a truth more than thirty years in the making, and a secret she was never meant to learn.How can love be enough, when fear and hate are fierce?

Sometimes the only way forward is back.Sahara Aldridge, a young Egyptologist in 1922, is chasing down the trail of her parents through the unknown corridors of time.But when all clues point to Ancient Rome as the next place to search, Sahara retreats into the safety of her archaeological work, cataloguing treasures from the newly-discovered tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.As the discovery of the intact tomb propels the world into a frenzy of "Tut-mania," the ever-present Jack Moretti is there to help, but what is his agenda?And it appears Tempus Vigilia isn't going to leave her alone. The secret society has sent others, tracking her movements and asking too many questions.Now it seems her family is in danger.Sahara must once again put her career on hold, to find what she has lost.But will Ancient Rome hold the answers, or only one more reason to grieve?