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Award-winning Historical Fantasy! A compelling tale weaving myth, history, and romance as a shipwrecked young woman discovers her destiny... Rejected by her father and yet determined to be her mother's daughter, Eva takes on the tragic destiny of her namesake: the mythological Arethusa. Shipwrecked on foreign shores, Eva finds herself torn between the dark and dangerous shipowner's son and the kind-hearted orphan boy who rescues her. Faced with an impossible choice, Eva must heed the troubling warnings of her goddess-touched visions before her fated destiny destroys them all. Set against the lush backdrop of 1890s Azores Islands, this Historical Fantasy Romance won First Place in the Chanticleer Cygnus Awards and was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. ""Wish I could give it 10 stars. Love it. The story grabs you and puts you in such suspense and over the edge until the end."" -Lunanima ""Left me breathless and spellbound. I wanted to live inside its pages."" -Karen Hooper, Author of Tangled Tides

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""Left me breathless and spellbound. I wanted to live inside its pages."" -Karen Hooper, Author of Tangled Tides ""The sign of a great emotional book is when I cry... and this one did it for me in bucketfuls. I loved all the characters, even the dark ones, and thought the ending was as strong as the beginning."" -Diane Richmond ""Wish I could give it 10 stars. Love it. The story grabs you and put you in such suspense and over the edge until the end. I would gladly recommend this book to anyone."" -Lunanima ""This book is really fast paced and I missed dinner reading it in one go! The heroine is strong and amazing; the fact she lost her voice makes her more beautiful."" --Avelial Feye ""Listening to this book was an amazing experience! The narrator has an incredibly expressive voice and is extremely talented at voice acting. I felt like I WAS Eva and not just witness to her trials and tribulations. I would definitely both listen to more work by this amazing narrator and read or listen to more books by this inventive and talented author! I hope they work together again in the future as they do so well together. This book is suitable for mature young adult through adult readers who enjoy stories of the Old Gods filled with mystery, intrigue, myth, action, adventure, supernatural forces, magic, mayhem, and horror but, most of all, romance and the search for truth and true love despite Destiny or Fate."" -Nocturnus ""Lasota's elegant, lyrical writing kept me reading and it didn't take long before I was completely engulfed by the story to Arethusa and Tristan. I just couldn't figure out where the author could possible take these two characters and their namesakes' stories! The ending was perfect on every level. The ""message"" as superbly delivered and I am a sucker for a HEA! Plus, I felt like Arethusa really grew as a character and, after she finally made some really good choices, I really liked her. Loved the setting and the spiritual/supernatural overtones were beautiful and gothic. I look forward to reading more by Lasota."" -C. Jones ""Utterly atmospheric. A story woven from the golden threads of myth and mastery... I loved the historical aspect of this. While the story itself was abstract, almost floating above reality in a sense, fantasy and fantastical, the setting did the plot justice. The Azores are exotic and new to most, full of lush landscapes and open seas, the Portuguese language foreign to most ears. The time was right, as well, the late 1800s when the world blossomed out, as did the world's women from the ties of oppression-just like Eva in this tale. Keeping the story ethereal were the intricate threads of the myths-those of Arethusa and Alpheus and Tristan and Isolde. Now, I wondered, how in the hooey is Cheri going to wend these two unrelated and vastly different myths together, but dang it... she did. I wondered, in a way, while listening to this, why Eva/Arethusa allowed herself to be so tied down to the myths? Why, in turn did Tristão? To me, it was the parental influence trickling down into the children themselves... and then when the children came into their own minds and their own lives it made sense. Much of it was more figurative and symbolic than realistic, and that was just fine with me. It was almost as if Artemis Rising was a new myth, a new tale to be told by the firesides and hearths."" -Jennifer Seidler

Author Information

USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Cheri Lasota is a freelance author, designer and editor. Her bestselling debut novel, Artemis Rising, is a 2013 Cygnus Awards First Place Winner and a 2012 finalist in the Next Generation Indie Books Awards. Cheri also helped found the Paradisi Chronicles, a massive open-source sci-fi universe set on the fictional planet, New Eden. Her Paradisi Exodus series focuses on the early years of the human exodus from Earth to the new planet. Cheri's most recent project is her ambitious Historical Fantasy series, Immortal Codex, which explores the lives of immortals throughout history.

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