The Sacred Band
Janet Morris and Chris Morris
6 x 9
618 pages
Hard Cover
ISBN 13:
978-0-9823745-9-7
$39.95
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ISBN 13:
978-1-937035-03-7
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The Sacred Band of Thebes lives on, a world away, in this mythic novel of love in war in ancient times. In 338 BCE, during the Battle of Chaeronea that results in the massacre of the Sacred Band of Thebes, the legendary Tempus and his Stepson cavalry rescue twenty-three pairs of Theban Sacred Banders, paired lovers and friends, to fight on other days. These forty-six Thebans, whose bones will never lie in the mass grave that holds their two hundred and fifty-four brothers, join with the immortalized Tempus and his Sacred Band of Stepsons, consummate ancient cavalry fighters, to make new lives in a faraway land and fight the battle of their dreams where gods walk the earth, ghosts take the field, and the angry Fates demand their due.
Paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.
So begins The Sacred Band, a mythic novel of the iconic Tempus and his Sacred Band of Stepsons. In a sweeping saga of love and death, the historic Sacred Band of Thebes meets the legendary Sacred Band of Stepsons and, together, battle for a future beyond imagining.
On a battlefield of ancient Greece, one war ends and another begins, a world away. In August of 338 BCE, during the Battle of Chaeronea that destroys the Sacred Band of Thebes, Tempus and his Stepson cavalry rescue twenty-three pairs of warriors to fight on other days. These forty-six Thebans, whose bones will never lie beside their two hundred fifty-four brothers, join with the immortalized Tempus and his Sacred Band to make new lives in a faraway land and fight the battle of their dreams where gods walk the earth, shades take the field, and angry Fates demand their due. Heroes and enemies clash in a confrontation three decades in the making: Tempus and his right-side partner, Nikodemos; star-crossed Critias and Straton; Randal the warrior-mage and a new generation of young Stepsons face their doom with unflinching determination, holding tight to their lovers and their weapons, defying even the warring gods.
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