Paul) to the sophisticated port city of Ephesus where Maeve is reunited with her Sarah-a lesbian pirate. Maeve’s adventures take her from the wilds of Galatia (where she raises her daughter Sarah till she runs away after a disastrous encounter with St. Pregnant with her lover’s posthumous child, Maeve becomes a mother on the lam (with the Virgin Mary in tow) when the early church fathers decide she is not fit to raise the savior’s scion. In her highly unorthodox way, she shares his ministry and braves the mysteries of death and resurrection. After adventures in the imperial city, which include intrigue at the Temple of Whores and Adulterers that nearly gets her killed, Maeve wins her freedom and goes to Galilee where she opens her own holy whore house, the site of her reunion with her long-lost beloved. We next find Maeve naked on a slave block in the heart of the Roman forum where she is snatched up by an aristocratic madam.

After she gives birth to a daughter, she is exiled, put to sea in a boat without oar or sail. In a breathless tale that includes incest, rape, betrayal and defiance, Maeve saves Jesus from being made a sacrifice at great cost to herself. Kirkus (Bright Dark Madonna) Magdalen Risingīorn to eight warrior witches on an isle in the Celtic Otherworld, Maeve meets her match at druid school in Esus (Jesus), a charismatic foreign exchange student from Galilee.

“ Magdalen fans are in for more surprises in Cunningham’s classy, sexy novel.this will be snapped up by Magdalen fans as well as Celtophiles, feminists, and lovers of a good yarn.”īooklist, starred review (The Passion of Mary Magdalen) “ Smart and earthy…richly imaginative…the epitome of the storytellers art.” Rowling, ends the Maeve Chronicles befittingly and beautifully, with a fourth novel as fully fruited as the first.” With Red-Robed Priestess, Cunningham, a storyteller as crafty as J.K. “Cunningham, always excellent when detailing bloody battles and earthy sex, exercises well her skills with description, history, and myth in and out of the Bible, character, poetry, and song. “Although given for a single book, this award also recognizes the three volumes of the Maeve series that have gone before and have served as mileposts in the literature of women’s spirituality.” Winner of the 2012 Sarasvati Award for Fiction from theĪssociation for the Study of Women and Mythology Praise for Elizabeth Cunningham’s The Maeve Chronicles The prequel to The Passion of Mary Magdalen.Mullane Literary Associates The Maeve Chronicles by Elizabeth Cunningham Their pleasure is overshadowed by a brilliant but unbalanced druid who knows a perilous secret about Maeve's past. Young Magdalen and Jesus, brimming with youthful charm and arrogance, find each other and fall in love, forging a bond that is stronger than death. Get this audiobook for free when you try Audible: Magdalen Rising by Elizabeth Cunningham on Audible: