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Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom
by Jordan Tannahill Kirsten BowenWinner of the Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play of 2016Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom presents wildly apocryphal retellings of two events—one historic, one mythic—that reconsider the official record through decidedly queer and feminist lenses.Painter Sandro Botticelli is an irrepressible libertine, renowned for his weekend-long orgies as much as he is for his great masterpieces of the early Renaissance. But things get complicated when Lorenzo de’ Medici commissions Botticelli to paint a portrait of his wife, Clarice. What emerges is the famed The Birth of Venus and a love triangle involving Botticelli’s young assistant Leonardo that risks setting their world alight. For while Florence of 1497 is a liberal city, civil unrest is stoked by the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola who begins calling for sodomites to be burned at the pyre.In the Bible she is unnamed, referred to simply as “Lot’s wife.” In Sunday in Sodom, Edith recounts how her husband welcomed two American soldiers into their house, the fury this sparked in their village, and the chain of events that led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. But most importantly, Edith sets the record straight as to why, after being told not to, she looked back upon the destruction of her hometown and turned into a pillar of salt.
Bottle Demon (Eric Carter #6)
by Stephen BlackmooreThe sixth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.The Necromancer is dead. Long live the Necromancer.After being attacked by a demon in the one place he thought he was safe, Eric Carter has been killed, his soul sent to take its place as a stand-in for the Aztec god of death Mictlantecuhtli. But somebody on Earth isn't done with him, yet. Somebody with the power to bring him back from the dead. He doesn't know who, and worse he doesn't know why.Between an angry death goddess, family secrets steeped in blood, a Djinn who's biding his time, and a killer mage who can create copy after copy of himself, Eric's new life looks to be just as violent as his last one. But if he doesn't get to the bottom of why he's back, it's going to be a hell of a lot shorter.
Bottle Demon (Eric Carter #6)
by Stephen BlackmooreStephen Blackmoore's dark urban fantasy series continues as hard-edged, hard-hitting necromancer Eric Carter finds himself surrounded by enemies who want him to suffer a fate worse than death… by bringing him back to life.When Carter comes to, he feels like Hell. Worse than hell. Every part of his body is on fire, his stomach is boiling acid, and he’s coughing up some horrific black substance from his lungs. He’s not feeling—or looking—like himself. All in all, not a jolly start to the day.Unfortunately, that’s about as good as its going to get. Because, as he soon learns, he’s been dead for years—until someone with some serious magical muscle decided to bring him back. But who could Carter have ticked off so badly they would expend such power just to return him to the mortal realm?Oh, that’s right: raging gods, sadistic demons, a very patient and vengeful djinn… pretty much every nightmare in the monster’s menagerie. And if Carter doesn’t figure out why someone—or some thing—is pulling the strings, his new life may have an even more gruesome end than his old one.
Bottle Fly (Yale Drama Series)
by Nicholas Wright Jacqueline GoldfingerAn earthy, cruel, and hilarious family drama of profound and reckless love Set in a bar in the Florida Everglades, this biting, brutally funny multigenerational family drama concerns a Gulf Coast couple, their disabled young ward, two lesbian tenants, and the bonds that bind them all together. It is a powerful story born out of the playwright’s own experiences with the rapidly changing social environment of rural Florida, where long-standing traditions and beliefs can collide, sometimes dangerously, with new ideas of personhood, identity, and self-realization. A rich and colorful mélange of American classes and cultures, this drama recounts a profoundly human struggle to reconcile the masks worn at home with the ones donned to go out into the world.
Bottle Rocket Hearts
by Zoe WhittallWelcome to ’90s Montreal. It’s been five years since the OKA crisis and the sex garage riots; the queers are rioting against assimilation, cocktail AIDS drugs are starting to work, and the city walls on either side of the Main are spray-painted with the words YES or NO. Revolution seems possible to eighteen-year-old Eve, who is pining to get out of her parent’s house in Dorval and find a girl who wants to kiss her back. She meets Della: ten years older, mysterious, defiantly non-monogamous, and an avid separatist. Their explosive beginning and volatile relationship paves a path for the personal and political to collide on the night of the referendum.
Bottled Goods: A Novel
by Sophie Van LlewynA Romanian woman seeks freedom—from her marriage, her mother, and a Communist dictator: “Lovely, funny, sad . . . It almost reads like a Wes Anderson film.” —Dolly Alderton, New York Times–bestselling author of Good MaterialLonglisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for FictionAlina yearns for freedom. She and her husband, Liviu, are teachers in their twenties, living under the repressive regime of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the Socialist Republic of Romania in the 1970s. But after her brother-in-law defects, Alina and Liviu fall under suspicion and surveillance, and their lives are suddenly turned upside down—just like the glasses in superstitious Aunt Theresa’s house that are used to ward off evil spirits.But Alina’s evil spirits are more corporeal: a suffocating, manipulative mother; a student who accuses her; and a menacing Secret Services agent who makes one too many visits. As the couple continues to be harassed, their marriage deteriorates. With the government watching—and most likely listening—escape seems impossible . . . until Alina’s mystical aunt proposes a surprising solution to reduce her problems to a manageable size.Weaving elements of magic realism, Romanian folklore, and Kafkaesque paranoia into a gritty and moving depiction of one woman’s struggle for personal and political freedom, Bottled Goods explores universal themes of empowerment, family, liberty, and loyalty.“The chapters are as brief and intense as flashes of lightning in a storm. So is van Llewyn’s prose. . . . the novel is a strikingly original work. Taut, searing, and sharp, van Llewyn’s novel is a lyrical jewel.” —Kirkus Reviews“Drawing on Romanian folklore and a few touches of magic realism, this novella-in-flash-fiction by the Romanian-born van Llewyn is a wonder.” —Library Journal (starred review)
Bottled Up
by Jaye MurrayPrincipal Giraldi has given Pip an ultimatum: Either he stops skipping classes and begins seeing a counselor after school, or he's expelled. But what really scares Pip is the thought that Giraldi might call his father. His father is what really scares Pip. Pip has been killing his time by getting high-trying to avoid thinking about his family life, trying not to notice that his younger brother isn't the same sweet, happy kid he used to be. Now Pip's being forced to think. Will he follow his father's destructive path, or will he invent his own future, one that might not include addiction and cruelty?
Bottled Up
by Jaye MurrayPip’s desperate to escape his life-he’s been skipping classes, drinking, getting high. Anything and everything to avoid his smug teachers, his sweet but needy little brother, his difficult home life. Now he’s been busted by Principal Giraldi and given an ultimatum: either he shows up for all his classes and sees a counselor after school, or he’s expelled. Pip’s freaked out; not because he might get kicked out of school, but by the thought that Giraldi might call his father. Because Pip will do anything to avoid his father. .
Bottled Up (Bottled Up Stories #1)
by Andrew GreyA Bottled Up StorySean Bielecki has built a new life, leaving an infamous identity and painful past behind. Now Sommelier Wines is Sean’s dream. And after taking in Bobby, a homeless teenager who was attacked in the alley behind his store, parental instincts wake in him that he didn’t know he had, giving him new courage and direction.Officer Sam Davis has been watching Sean for a while—not because of his past—but rising star because Sam wants to be a part of his life now. Sam finally asks Sean out, and they seem to click, but Sean is haunted by his memories.It all comes to a head when the man who attacked Bobby returns, awakening Sean’s buried fears, which are compounded by a hateful ex and a new lover who puts his life on the line for others. Can Sean come to terms with his past and present to move into the future? Or will his dream of love end before it starts?
Bottom Feeder
by Matt ColeDeena Hopping, a Pennsylvanian divorcee, finally has a home again, a rental, but it's new and she is rebuilding her life. Yet there is something about the basement that troubles her besides the fact that her landlord lives in the basement. When women begin to disappear she suspects her landlord. Researching the history of the town, she learns that there were many mysterious disappearances throughout its history. When the police finally put an end to her landlord's reign of terror, she thinks all is well. But the real horror is hidden deeper in the earth, below the basement, a being of evil that will destroy the entire town if that's what it takes to feed its appetite...
Bottom Feeders: A Novel
by John ShepphirdA page-turning whodunit set in the wilds of a remote movie ranch, Bottom Feeders describes the hapless Hollywood cast and crew that eke out a living working on low-budget fare.Their ambitious TV movie needs to be made fast and cheap, but a brutal murder grinds production to a halt. An approaching forest fire forces everyone to evacuate. In the confusion not everyone gets out. Eddie is the alcoholic director, Sheila the vulnerable camera assistant, Tom the self-centered actor, and Sondra the spurned sheriff’s deputy. Who will survive?Death comes sudden and silent. The camouflaged killer’s weapon-of-choice is a high-tech hunting bow capable of firing razor-sharp arrows four hundred feet per second. The mysterious assassin has an agenda. Those left behind must find out what it is and who is behind this bloody slaughter in the fight for their lives.
Bottom Line: A Gay Romantic Suspense Book (Follow the Money #2)
by G.B. GordonG.B. Gordon returns with the second installment in the Follow the Money romantic suspense series, perfect for fans of TV&’s White Collar. Working for the FBI has always given Nick Marshall exactly what he wants in life: control over his distinguished career and control over his playboy image. And his notorious hookups have always given him control over his admittedly shallow relationships…until his last assignment showed him how amazing it could be to give up a little of that control. Amazing and terrifying. Accountant Ben Coyne likes control too. Which is why waiting in vain for the gruff FBI agent to call makes Ben question his judgment and his heart. Just when it seems their intense chemistry must have been one-sided, Ben and Nick&’s lives collide again, and Ben gets tangled up in the money-laundering scheme Nick&’s investigating in Vancouver. And it&’s crystal clear the attraction is still there, hotter than ever. Tracking down dirty money and working to uncover a suspected mole, Nick and Ben must learn to trust each other and work together, or else watch this case—and maybe their lives—go up in flames…Follow the MoneyBook 1: By the BookBook 2: Bottom Line
Bottom Line: Number 37 in Series (The Destroyer #37)
by Warren Murphy Richard SapirDr Elena Gladstone is an scientist. After hundreds of experiments she discovers that emotions, such as an animal's fear, produce a substance in the brain which can be isolated, purified and intensified, and then injected into the bloodstream of another animal . . . to produce exactly the same emotion. She has never published any of her research. In the back of her mind she has always known that there was a profit to be turned from it, which she knows would relate to how much she knew and how little others knew. It's not long before her experiments become reality, with ruthless and brutal consequences. Will this be the first time that Remo Williams, the Destroyer, finally gets a taste of fear? Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
Bottom Rail on Top
by D. M. BradfordA rolling call and response between antebellum Black history and the present that mediates it. Somewhere in the cut between Harriet Jacobs and surveillance, Southampton and sneaker game, Lake Providence and the supply chain, Bottom Rail on Top sets off a mediation between the complications of legacy and selfhood. In a kind of archives-powered unmooring of the linear progress story, award-winning poet D.M. Bradford fragments and recomposes American histories of antebellum Black life and emancipation, and stages the action in tandem with the matter of his own life. Amidst echoes and complicities, roots and flights, lineage and mastery, it's a story of stories told in knots and asides, held together with paper trails, curiosities, and hooks — a study that doesn't end.
Bottomland: A Novel
by Michelle Hoover&“A lyrical, at times mysterious, and dreamy tale of family ties . . . An intriguing, modern take on a classic American landscape&” (Kirkus Reviews). At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland follows the Hess family in the years after World War I, as they attempt to rid themselves of the anti-German sentiment that left a stain on their name. But when the youngest two daughters vanish in the middle of the night, the family must piece together what happened while struggling to maintain their life on the unforgiving Iowa plains. In the weeks after Esther and Myrle&’s disappearance, their siblings desperately search for them, through the stark farmlands to the unfamiliar world of far-off Chicago. Have the girls run away to another farm? Have they gone to the city to seek a new life? Or were they abducted? Ostracized and misunderstood in their small town in the wake of the war, the Hesses fear the worst. From the acclaimed author of The Quickening, &“Bottomland is more than a literary mystery. It&’s a trance, a poem, a lamentation, a benediction. And it&’s breathtaking. As in: remind yourself to breathe&” (Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers). &“Hoover skillfully interweaves many of the Hess family members&’ narratives. Her descriptions of the bleak rural landscape are chilling. Fans of Jim Harrison&’s Legends of the Fall will enjoy the plot; Willa Cather enthusiasts will relish the setting; and Theodore Dreiser readers will savor the gritty characterizations.&” —Library Journal (starred review) &“There are many compelling things about Michelle Hoover&’s potent new novel, Bottomland, not least of all her austere style and its visceral punch.&” —The Boston Globe
Bottoms Away
by EtienneSequel to Bottoms OutAbout a Bottoms: Book ThreeAn Avondale Story Chris Bottoms is glad to be home from undergoing the first of two surgeries that will free him from the ostomy bag he's been wearing for more than a year. He's anxious about the upcoming second surgery, but life is keeping him on his toes. The bank hierarchy is clearly grooming Chris's partner, Mickey O'Donovan, vice president of a mega-bank, for a promotion. That doesn't help reconcile the family who turned their backs on Mickey for not going into the family business. To make matters worse, Chris's little brother's abusers are still out there, and that makes Chris angry. He and Mickey are raising Ted now. Between dealing with spiteful relatives and doing their best by a hurt ten-year-old boy, Chris and Mickey wonder how much more reality they can take. Chris's second and final surgery can't come soon enough. Both men are looking forward its most important side-effect--Chris will once again be able to enjoy prostate massage--but not until three months after the surgery.
Bottoms Away: (about A Bottoms Vol 3)
by EtienneChris Bottoms is glad to be home from undergoing the first of two surgeries that will free him from the ostomy bag he’s been wearing for more than a year. He’s anxious about the upcoming second surgery, but life is keeping him on his toes.The bank hierarchy is clearly grooming Chris’s partner, Mickey O’Donovan, vice president of a megabank, for a promotion. That doesn’t help reconcile the family who turned their backs on Mickey for not going into the family business. To make matters worse, Chris's little brother's abusers are still out there, and that makes Chris angry. He and Mickey are raising Ted now. Between dealing with spiteful relatives and doing their best by a hurt ten-year-old boy, Chris and Mickey wonder how much more reality they can take.Chris's second and final surgery can't come soon enough. Both men are looking forward its most important side-effect -- Chris will once again be able to enjoy prostate massage, but not until three months after the surgery.
Bottoms Out: (about A Bottoms Vol 2)
by EtienneAfter the death of their mother, Chris Bottoms adopted his little brother Ted, and Chris and his partner Mickey settle down to raise him. Through paperwork left by his mother, Chris learns his brother has a deeply troubled past.During a Thanksgiving visit with Chris and Ted’s maternal grandparents, they find out Chris’s grandfather allowed his friends to abuse Ted, so Chris severs all ties with that side of his family.Through his job at a hospital, Chris hears of a surgeon at the Mayo Clinic who has developed an ileostomy reversal technique that has proven successful in cases like his. When Chris enters the clinic for preliminary testing, he learns he is a good candidate for the procedure and schedules the first of two surgeries for the beginning of January. A visit from estranged relatives while he’s in the hospital leaves him wondering how many secrets one family can have.
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
by Kerry HowleyA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR&“Riveting and darkly funny and in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.&” – The New York TimesA wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America—from the acclaimed author of ThrownWho are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections—a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs tells the true story of intelligence specialist Reality Winner, a lone young woman who stuffs a state secret under her skirt and trusts the wrong people to help. After printing five pages of dangerous information she was never supposed to see, Winner finds herself at the mercy of forces more invasive than she could have possibly imagined.Following Winner&’s unlikely journey from rural Texas to a federal courtroom, Howley maps a hidden world, drawing in John Walker Lindh, Lady Gaga, Edward Snowden, a rescue dog named Outlaw Babyface Nelson, and a mother who will do whatever it takes to get her daughter out of jail. Howley&’s subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera set in the deep state, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs is a free fall into a world where everything is recorded and nothing is sacred, from a singular writer unafraid to ask essential questions about the strangeness of modern life.
Bottoms Up: (about A Bottoms Vol 1) (About A Bottoms Ser. #1)
by EtienneRN First Assistant Chris Bottoms enjoys being a bottom. Though abused by his stepfather as a boy and conditioned to enjoy sex only one particular way, he’s come to make the most of his life. And he enjoys bottoming to the hilt whenever and wherever he can.As if colorectal cancer wasn’t enough of a trial, the subsequent botched surgery robs him of normal bodily functions, so no more prostate massage for Chris. In the middle of his medical drama, his best friend, Mickey O’Donovan, accepts a promotion that brings him to live in Jacksonville. Roommates in college, they’ve remained friends and occasional fuck buddies ever since. Chris’s crisis brings their relationship to a new level, though, and long-suppressed feelings are revealed.Chris and Mickey settle down together and life is good, even though they can no longer indulge in their favorite sexual position. But Chris can’t seem to catch a break. When his past rears its head, Chris and Mickey must face a new challenge, together.
Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance (Sexual Cultures)
by Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-GomezProposes a queer way to be in the world and with othersInvoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, Bottoms Up explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez demonstrates how aesthetic representations of sex—namely, bottoming—function as allegorical paradigms, revealing the assemblages of violence that have constituted the social, cultural, and political shifts of Mexico and US Latinx culture from 1950 to the present.With playful, theoretically nuanced prose, Cervantes-Gómez builds upon queer of color theory and continental philosophy to present the “bottom” as a form of relational performance, which she terms “pasivo ethics.” The argument develops through a series of compelling case studies, including a series of novels by Octavio Paz and Luis Zapata that trace the position of the bottom in Mexican nationalist literature; the forms of exposure, risk, and proximity in the performance work of artist Lechedevirgen Trimegisto; a reading of violence and the erotic in the work of artist Bruno Ramri; and reading artists such as Yosimar Reyes, Yanina Orellana, and Carlos Martiel as they build a framework of sexual inheritance that carries the traumas of Mexicanness into the diaspora.Through a broad archive rooted in hemispheric Latinx performance, Bottoms Up considers how sexual and political power are bound up with each other in the shaping of Mexicanness. Placing particular emphasis on questions of queer and trans Mexican embodiment, the book explains how Mexicanness is constituted through discourses of exposure.
Botánica sentimental
by Mercedes AraujoEn zona de terremotos Mercedes Araujo construye esta historia de dos siglos con gestos, rutinas y dichos. El cruce de los Andes en un pequeño avión de tela, un caballo que se desboca o un estudio de cine en pleno desierto: todo tiene el mandato efímero de la inminente destrucción y la eternidad de la belleza. Antonia conduce de regreso a La Silenciada, la casona familiar abandonada entre viñedos. Los caracoles de la ruta dibujan las vueltas de su propio pensamiento ensimismado por un amor quebrado que la tiene sin rumbo. La vieja finca es, a la vez, punto de llegada y de partida. Allí resuenan los ecos del léxico de una familia que hunde sus orígenes en una tierra que cada tanto se sacude por el latido arrebatado del planeta y desde donde puede verse un cielo con millones de estrellas. La crítica ha dicho... «Con una prosa iluminada, personalísima, Botánica sentimental evoca y recompone una vasta conversación entre generaciones de mujeres. Pronuncian frases delicadamente sabias como al pasar, en escenas tiernas e inolvidables sembradas con radical libertad y exquisita agudeza, en un universo tan íntimo como vibrante».Magalí Etchebarne Sobre La hija de la cabra... «Tiene un manejo exquisito del lenguaje, es un cruce raro de influencias, con ecos de Rulfo, de Leónidas Lamborghini, de novelas o poemas sobre el desierto, de novelas sobre mujeres. Ficcionaliza una geografía y una época y se corre del relato histórico tradicional. Es muy innovadora».María Teresa Andruetto «El tratamiento del lenguaje es extraordinario, es un mundo absolutamente personal, fuerte y extraño. Es un lenguaje inventado que evoca las novelas latinoamericanas de pequeños pueblos, simbólicos y épicos».Leopoldo Brizuela «Propone un mundo, y su lectura es una experiencia en el mejor sentido. La llamada "barbarie" siempre fue contada desde la "civilización". Esta novela reporta desde la barbarie y lo hace con un lenguaje propio y diferente que va instaurando ante el lector un mundo único y perdido».Esther Cross
Boudica's Odyssey in Early Modern England
by Samantha Frénée-HutchinsThis diachronic study of Boudica serves as a sourcebook of references to Boudica in the early modern period and gives an overview of the ways in which her story was processed and exploited by the different players of the times who wanted to give credence and support to their own belief systems. The author examines the different apparatus of state ideology which processed the social, religious and political representations of Boudica for public absorption and helped form the popular myth we have of Boudica today. By exploring images of the Briton warrior queen across two reigns which witnessed an act of political union and a move from English female rule (under Elizabeth I) to British/Scottish masculine rule (under James VI & I) the author conducts a critical cartography of the ways in which gender, colonialism and nationalism crystallised around this crucial historical figure. Concentrating on the original transmission and reception of the ancient texts the author analyses the historical works of Hector Boece, Raphael Holinshed and William Camden as well as the canonical literary figures of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. She also looks at aspects of other primary sources not covered in previous scholarship, such as Humphrey Llwyd’s Breuiary of Britayne (1573), Petruccio Ubaldini’s Le Vite delle donne illustri, del regno d’Inghilterra, e del regno di Scotia (1588) and Edmund Bolton’s Nero Caesar (1624). Furthermore, she incorporates archaeological research relating to Boudica.
Boudica: Dreaming The Eagle
by Manda ScottDreaming the Eagleis the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica. Boudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word “boudeg”). She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain; the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome—and triumph. It is 33 AD and eleven-year-old Breaca (later named Boudica), the red-haired daughter of one of the leaders of the Eceni tribe, is on the cusp between girl and womanhood. She longs to be a Dreamer, a mystical leader who can foretell the future, but having killed the man who has attacked and killed her mother, she has proven herself a warrior. Dreaming the Eagleis also the story of the two men Boudica loves most: Caradoc, outstanding warrior and inspirational leader; and Bàn, her half-brother, who longs to be a warrior, though he is manifestly a Dreamer, possibly the finest in his tribe’s history. Bàn becomes the Druid whose eventual return to the Celts is Boudica’s salvation. Dreaming the Eagleis full of brilliantly realised, luminous scenes as the narrative sweeps effortlessly from the epic—where battle scenes are huge, bloody, and action-packed—to the intimate. Manda Scott plunges us into the unforgettable world of tribal Britain in the years before the Roman invasion: a world of druids and dreamers and the magic of the gods where the natural world is as much a character as any of the people who live within it, a world of warriors who fight for honour as much as victory, a world of passion, courage and spectacular heroism pitched against overwhelming odds. Dreaming the Eaglestunningly recreates the roots of a story so powerful its impact has lasted through the ages. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Boudica: Dreaming the Bull
by Manda ScottThe second part of the stunning fictionalization of the life of Britain’s warrior queen, Boudica, immerses us in a world of druids and dreamers, warriors and lovers, passion and courage. Originally a trilogy, this is now a four-part series. “Boudica” means “Bringer of Victory” (from the early Celtic word “boudeg”). She was the last defender of the Celtic culture; the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome -- and triumph. Book one, Dreaming the Eagle, took readers from Boudica’s girlhood with the Eceni tribe to the climax of the two-day battle when she and her lover, Caradoc, faced the invading Romans. Believing her dead, Breaca’s beloved brother, Bán, joined the Roman cause. Dreaming the Bull, the second book in this compelling series, continues the intertwined stories of Boudica, and Bán, now an officer in the Roman cavalry. They stand on opposite sides in a brutal war of attrition between the occupying army and the defeated tribes, each determined to see the other dead. In a country under occupation, Caradoc, lover to Breaca, is caught and faces the ultimate penalty. Only Bán has the power to save him, and Bán has spent the past ten years denying his past. Treachery divides these two; heroism brings them together again, changed out of all recognition -- but it may not be enough to heal the wounds. Dreaming the Bull is a heart-stopping story of war and of peace; of love, passion and betrayal; of druids and warring gods, where each life is sacred and each death even more so; and where Breaca and Bán learn the terrible distances they must travel to fulfill their own destinies.