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— CHAPTER 1 —
When I was initially invited to Cairo, Egypt, I hadn’t expected to come face to face with a mythological monster.
“She’s a Harpy,” insisted Rehema.
It was the third time she had repeated it. I heard the words, but they refused to settle into my brain. Harpy?
My colleague and friend Doctor Rehema Nader raised her hands in a defensive motion. “I know, I know. I can already tell by the look on your face, you think I’ve lost my mind.”
“Well, you have been a bit stressed out organizing the upcoming Gala,” I said in response.
Rehema didn’t reply as she carefully adjusted the lighting over the exam table so I could see every detail of the mummified corpse in the harsh light.
My next words died on my lips as I stared down.
“Now you see, Kristi, why I wanted you to come here. Pictures wouldn’t have done this justice.”
“Why? How?” I choked out as my eyes ran up and down the length of her not really my mind reeling. “You’re right, if you told me this over the phone, I would believe you, but I’d never imagine anything like this,” I said. “Who was she?”
“According to the inscriptions of her sarcophagus and the papyri that we’ve been able to cipher so far, her name was Okypete, and she was a priestess of a goddess called Britomartis and was a refugee living in the temple of Aten. But the funny thing is, she was a Minoan. On her sarcophagus, it described her as a close confidant of the great king Zeus....”
A scene from the current book I'm writing...
From a secluded cave high on the craggy slope of the island of Crete, Kristi overlooks the Abby and the shoreline. Mythical Harpies might have once called this place home, along with where the god Zeus was born.
Little does Kristi know that the nuns there hold a secret that could mean life or death.
Iceland Adventure 2023
Follow me as I take you through 10 days of driving the Ring Road.