The Ancient Series

I call the second part Ancient Katie. These next four books deal with Katie's life in 1326 BC, when she becomes Ishtar, the Goddess of Love and War

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As an author I have an ability to land these guys anywhere in space and time, allowing me a wide-open palette from which to paint their actions. Using time travel, and magic I place our heroes in unique situations and locations all over the world, and anytime in history, intertwining factual history with religious myths and miracles.

Katie Reynolds, a young veterinary doctor from California, is sent overseas to war-torn Kurdistan to find a disease spreading from animals to people. Unexpectedly caught in a firestorm, she is cast into the ancient Middle East, where she has only her intelligence to keep her alive in the extraordinary and archaic time of 1326 BC, the age of the Egyptian Pharaohs.

The way Katie appeared to these people caused them to understand this was their goddess come to earth, mistaken for Ištar, the ancient Sumerian goddess of love and war, a voluptuously naked, winged woman with lions on either side of her and an eight-pointed star above her head. Intimately connected with fertility, sexuality, and war, her symbols were the lion, the horse, the sphinx, the dove, and a star within a circle emulating the planet Venus. Revered as both the evening and morning stars, the worship of this goddess was prevalent, dictating the lives of people and societies over thousands of years.