A historical fiction odyssey across 15th century Europe
Young Newt’s gift for language turns a curse when he blurts out in Latin about the devil at his parish church. Facing charges of witchery, Newt flees England to work as a translator for his father’s wool business. Newt meets Aisha, a Muslim girl from the Nasrid Kingdom (now southern Spain). Aisha has her own genius for seeing mathematical patterns in nature. The prodigies share a tutor, Peter, who enlists them in his scheme to rescue Arabic books from the Nasrid Kingdom that are threatened by the encroaching army of Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand. When warfare and prejudice drive Newt and Aisha apart, they vow to reunite at any cost.
THE CIRCUS OF THE VANISHING ELEPHANT
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When a circus’s star elephant, Henrietta, vanishes during a parade, the owner of the circus struggles to keep his three rings from going off the rails.
The Circus of the Vanishing Elephant follows the King Minos Circus as it travels across the United States in 1974. Christos “King” Minos loves his star elephant, Henrietta. He has days when he suspects he loves her more than he loves his own daughter, who has left the circus in a huff, vowing to free the elephants from captivity. Minos has taken under his wing a new clown, a young man haunted by the ghost of his father angered by his son’s sexual orientation. When Henrietta disappears, suspicion falls on his daughter and the new circus hire. Minos, feeling doubly betrayed, swears he will find Henrietta and punish his daughter and the newcomer.