SummaryOnce again, Diana L. Paxson has beautifully elaborated on
Marion Zimmer Bradley's beloved Avalon saga with this
dramatic new installment, which for the first time reveals
the past of the ancestors of Avalon, from their beginnings
on the doomed island of Atlantis to their escape to the
mist-shrouded isle of Britain. It follows the extraordinary
journey of two powerful women whose destinies will shape
the fates of their physical and spiritual descendants:
Tiriki, a high priestess exiled by the fall of Atlantis,
torn between the claims of love and duty, and Damisa, a
young acolyte of royal blood, tempted by ambition to
forsake her spiritual path.
Hints of this mysterious past have haunted all the novels
of Avalon, but until now the full sweep of this rich
history has not been revealed. Dramatic, peopled with the
remarkable women who have always inhabited Avalon, and set
in a world of enchantment that will sweep readers to a
richly imagined time and place, Marion Zimmer Bradley's
Ancestors of Avalon is another spectacular epic that is
sure to please Bradley's many ardent readers.
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