The Claudia Seferius Mysteries, Bundle #5 by Marilyn Todd

Author:Marilyn Todd [Todd, Marilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing
Published: 2015-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Scorpion Rising

This is where I live. So this book is dedicated to everyone who lived here before me, from Neolithic man to the Gauls, the Romans who bridged the river, the Crusaders who built the fortress, the Knights Templar, the priests who turned the castle into a seminary, even the Germans who occupied it during the War. But most especially to my gorgeous little tortoiseshell, Tuppence.

In the centre of the world, between earth, sky and sea, at the point where the realms of the universe meet, is a place from which everything the world over can be seen. There Rumour lives, in a home she has chosen for herself on a hilltop. Night and day the house lies open, for she has given it a thousand apertures and incalculable entrances, with never a door to barricade her thresholds. The whole structure is of echoing brass and there is no quiet within, no silence in any part, and yet there is no din. Only murmured whisperings, like the sound of the sea’s waves heard at a distance, or the last rumbles of Jupiter’s thunder. A host inhabits these halls. They come, they go, a shadowy throng. And a thousand rumours, false mixed with true, stray this way and that, while confused words flit about, pouring their stories into idle ears, while others carry off the tales they have heard. And the story grows, each teller adding to what he has heard—and Rumour sees everything that goes on in heaven, in earth and on the sea…

Ovid (43 BC–AD 17)

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