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THE IDUMEAN COVENANT: A Novel of the Fall of Jerusalem

In a time of religious upheaval and civil war in a country where men of different faiths can never be brothers,  three slaves must keep a date with destiny.

Death,  destruction  and the persecution of an entire nation at the hands of the Roman army set the stage for the debut  of "The Idumean  Covenant: A Novel of the Fall of Jerusalem."

The Idumean  Covenant gives readers a front row seat for the Year of the Four Emperors, a bloody Roman civil war that threatens to tear apart the nation of Israel. In the front of the violence and mayhem are Roman general Titus Flavius Vespasian and the Governor of Galilee, Titus Flavius Josephus, who turns his back on his people to pave the way for the glory of Rome.

Abraham's twin grandsons, Jacob and Esau, were bitter enemies. Jacob's descendants, the Judeans become God's chosen people and Esau's descendants, the Idumeans, become the people that God hated and despised.God's prophets tell the Judeans, Isaiah and Ezehiel, to rob and even kill Idumeans. Inexplicably, however, Titus Flavius Josephus relates in his Jewish Wars that the insurrectionists against Rome called upon the Idumeans for support in order to prevent the Judean sect of Sadducees from turning Jerusalem over to the Romans.

In addressing this enigma, The Idumean Covenant becomes a locomotive taking the intelligent reader on a historical adventure of cynical plots, unconventional alliances and impossible loves pitting the most powerful men of the Roman Empire against each other. Moreover, The Idumean Covenant makes a convincing and thoroughly factual connection between the Temple of Jerusalem and the Priory of Scion, between the Temple Guards and the Order of Templars.

With mercenaries, priests, murderers and the wrath of the Roman empire driving the action, The Idumean Covenant keeps the readers guessing from the very beginning into whose hands Jerusalem and the whole of Israel will eventually fall-and what will become of the three unlikely heroes, a trio of house slaves whose misadventures will leave their audience in stitches from the first page to the last.

It is the time of the zealot, where religious fervor has led Judea (in fact, the whole of Israel) to rise up in insurrection against Rome. Titus Flavius Josephus and Titus Flavius Vespasian, powerful leaders who share a hunger for power, find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for Roman supremacy-and unlikely enemies for the heart of a woman.

Don't dismiss this book because of its lofty title which makes it appear less entertaining than a college textbook. When you crack it open, within minutes you'll fall in love with unlikely heroes: Robban, our cynical house slave turned bandit, Lupo, the loveable servant whose life's ambition is to keep Robban from hopping out of the frying pan an into the fire and Ailijah, the love of Robban's life and the consort of Titus Flavius Josephus himself-for a while, anyway.

Follow Robban, Lupo and Ailijah as they join forces to set Israel to rights in The Idumean Covenant: A Novel of the Fall of Jerusalem.

$25.95             ISBN 978-0-9716691-3-0

AVAILBLE WINTER 2009

Title: Frank Yerby: A Victim's Guilt

Synopsis:

FRANK YERBY is on his deathbed … and he knows it. But death frightens Yerby not at all. Death infuriates him. Death means that none of his literary accomplishments will be appreciated. And he will be denied the acclaim that he deserves. But even as Yerby’s mind rages against this unkind fate, characters from his books … his own creations … rage against him. They accuse him of being the author of his own failure and, in turn, casting them into oblivion. So Yerby's characters determine that he must unravel the mystery of the 'victim's guilt'. In part one, SUMAYLA summons Frank Yerby back to 9th century Spain using the powers of Jewish mysticism. Sumayla is allied with the grand vizier who plots to overthrow the Emir of Cordoba. In the second part, the leader of a Voodoo cult conjures up a spell to bring Frank Yerby to Cuba. The Voodoo priest wants Yerby to assist and protect his nephew, PEDRO, who plans to lead an insurrection of Negro slaves and Cuban haciendados against Cuba’s rulers.In the third part, ELLEN causes the rape and murder of her sister and must flee only to become embroiled in the bloody Kansas border war. When she is sold into slavery, Frank Yerby must come to her rescue.