Blog Tour - Legends of Persia
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When Ashley Riveraine jumped at the chance to travel back in time to meet her hero Alexander the Great, she never thought she would end up staying there…
Following Alexander the Great’s army on its journey across Persia, Ashley is walking the knife edge of history. As a presumed goddess, Ashley is expected to bless crops, make sure battles are won and somehow keep herself out of the history books.
Can Ashley avoid the wrath of the Time Institute while keeping the man she loves alive?
Purchase Link - mybook.to/LegendsofPersia
When Ashley Riveraine jumped at the chance to travel back in time to meet her hero
Alexander the Great, she never thought she would end up staying there…
Following Alexander the Great’s army on its journey across Persia, Ashley is walking the
knife edge of history. As a presumed goddess, Ashley is expected to bless crops, make sure
battles are won and somehow keep herself out of the history books.
Can Ashley avoid the wrath of the Time Institute while keeping the man she loves alive?
My decision to write a story based on the myth of Persephone came from, first of all, my
love of Greek myths. One of the first books my parents gave me was a huge, beautifully illustrated book of mythology, which I still have in my library. The story of Persephone, kidnapped by Hades and forced to live in the Underworld for six months out of the year, captured my imagination. It was not surprising that my book started with a kidnapping. Alexander the Great even mistakes Ashley,
the time-travelling journalist, for Persephone. She's condemned by his actions to stay in 333 BC.
How can she survive? She knows she cannot change history in the slightest or the Time Senders will erase her, and it will be as if she never existed. She must remain in shadow, like Persephone in the Underworld.
How can a kidnapping lead to a love story, you ask yourself? What most people don't know
is that Persephone and Hades had one of the most stable marriages of all the Greek gods. He fell in love with Persephone and he knew her mother would never accept his offer of marriage, so he harnessed his black horses, got in his chariot, and swept Persephone into his arms then plunged back into the underworld.
At first, Persephone is miserable and she refuses to speak or eat. Up above, on the surface of the earth, her mother, Demeter, is mad with grief. Goddess of the harvest, she stops the crops from growing and casts winter upon the land. When Zeus sees people starving, he sternly orders Hades to return his bride to her mother.
Hades obeys, and Demeter's joy brings spring to the land. But Persephone did eat something
in the Underworld – she ate a pomegranate, so she is condemned to return to the underworld.
Demeter manages to negotiate a deal – Persephone will only spend half the year with her husband. The other half will be spent in Olympus, with her mother, and that's why (according to the myth) we have seasons.
But Persephone has grown fond of her introverted, shy husband. He's got a keen sense of justice, he's peaceful, he takes his responsibilities seriously and takes great care of his underworld kingdom. Little by little, she falls in love with him and bears his children. It doesn't hurt that he's also very handsome, and unlike most other Greek gods to their wives, he's faithful to her.
The myth of Persephone is a complex one – she's one of the gods who is connected directly
to the mortal world and to divinity through death and rebirth. She represents spring, flowers,
ripening grain, and the cycle of life from birth to death. So it is fitting that she spends half the year with her mother, under the sun, with growing and changing nature and then she returns to her beloved husband to rest and to replenish.
Persephone had three children: Makaria, Melinoe, and Zagreus.Makaria is known as the goddess of blessed death. Her lover is Thanatos, god of death.
Melinoe is the daughter of Persephone and Zeus (who laid with disguised as Hades). She is also the goddess of ghosts.
The most mysterious child, Zagreus, is either the son of Hades or Zeus, and Persephone. Zeus favoured the child, so he took him to Olympus. He is the god of mysteries, hunting, and rebirth. Other stories claim he was killed by the Titans by Hera's orders (she thought he was Zeus's son) and that Persephone could only recover his heart. She managed to give the heart to a mortal, Semele, who became Dionysus's mother.
Jennifer Macaire
Author website: https://authorjennifermacaire.wordpress.com/
Blog (more fun): https://jennifermacaire.wordpress.com/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TimeforAlexander/
Instagram (for those who like pretty pictures): https://www.instagram.com/jennifermacaire/
twitter: @jennifermacaire
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Universal to buy link for Amazon: mybook.to/LegendsofPersia
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cooking, eating chocolate, growing herbs and flowering plants on her balcony, and playing golf. She grew up in upstate New York, Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. She graduated from St. Peter and Paul high school in St. Thomas and moved to NYC where she modeled for five years for Elite. She met her husband at the polo club. All that is true. But she mostly likes to make up stories.
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Legends of Persia
by Jennifer Macaire
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Legends of Persia
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Following Alexander the Great’s army on its journey across Persia, Ashley is walking the knife edge of history. As a presumed goddess, Ashley is expected to bless crops, make sure battles are won and somehow keep herself out of the history books.
Can Ashley avoid the wrath of the Time Institute while keeping the man she loves alive?
Purchase Link - mybook.to/LegendsofPersia
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Author Guest Post
Alexander the Great, she never thought she would end up staying there…
Following Alexander the Great’s army on its journey across Persia, Ashley is walking the
knife edge of history. As a presumed goddess, Ashley is expected to bless crops, make sure
battles are won and somehow keep herself out of the history books.
Can Ashley avoid the wrath of the Time Institute while keeping the man she loves alive?
My decision to write a story based on the myth of Persephone came from, first of all, my
love of Greek myths. One of the first books my parents gave me was a huge, beautifully illustrated book of mythology, which I still have in my library. The story of Persephone, kidnapped by Hades and forced to live in the Underworld for six months out of the year, captured my imagination. It was not surprising that my book started with a kidnapping. Alexander the Great even mistakes Ashley,
the time-travelling journalist, for Persephone. She's condemned by his actions to stay in 333 BC.
How can she survive? She knows she cannot change history in the slightest or the Time Senders will erase her, and it will be as if she never existed. She must remain in shadow, like Persephone in the Underworld.
How can a kidnapping lead to a love story, you ask yourself? What most people don't know
is that Persephone and Hades had one of the most stable marriages of all the Greek gods. He fell in love with Persephone and he knew her mother would never accept his offer of marriage, so he harnessed his black horses, got in his chariot, and swept Persephone into his arms then plunged back into the underworld.
At first, Persephone is miserable and she refuses to speak or eat. Up above, on the surface of the earth, her mother, Demeter, is mad with grief. Goddess of the harvest, she stops the crops from growing and casts winter upon the land. When Zeus sees people starving, he sternly orders Hades to return his bride to her mother.
Hades obeys, and Demeter's joy brings spring to the land. But Persephone did eat something
in the Underworld – she ate a pomegranate, so she is condemned to return to the underworld.
Demeter manages to negotiate a deal – Persephone will only spend half the year with her husband. The other half will be spent in Olympus, with her mother, and that's why (according to the myth) we have seasons.
But Persephone has grown fond of her introverted, shy husband. He's got a keen sense of justice, he's peaceful, he takes his responsibilities seriously and takes great care of his underworld kingdom. Little by little, she falls in love with him and bears his children. It doesn't hurt that he's also very handsome, and unlike most other Greek gods to their wives, he's faithful to her.
The myth of Persephone is a complex one – she's one of the gods who is connected directly
to the mortal world and to divinity through death and rebirth. She represents spring, flowers,
ripening grain, and the cycle of life from birth to death. So it is fitting that she spends half the year with her mother, under the sun, with growing and changing nature and then she returns to her beloved husband to rest and to replenish.
Persephone had three children: Makaria, Melinoe, and Zagreus.Makaria is known as the goddess of blessed death. Her lover is Thanatos, god of death.
Melinoe is the daughter of Persephone and Zeus (who laid with disguised as Hades). She is also the goddess of ghosts.
The most mysterious child, Zagreus, is either the son of Hades or Zeus, and Persephone. Zeus favoured the child, so he took him to Olympus. He is the god of mysteries, hunting, and rebirth. Other stories claim he was killed by the Titans by Hera's orders (she thought he was Zeus's son) and that Persephone could only recover his heart. She managed to give the heart to a mortal, Semele, who became Dionysus's mother.
Jennifer Macaire
Author website: https://authorjennifermacaire.wordpress.com/
Blog (more fun): https://jennifermacaire.wordpress.com/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TimeforAlexander/
Instagram (for those who like pretty pictures): https://www.instagram.com/jennifermacaire/
twitter: @jennifermacaire
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/jennifer-macaire
Universal to buy link for Amazon: mybook.to/LegendsofPersia
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cooking, eating chocolate, growing herbs and flowering plants on her balcony, and playing golf. She grew up in upstate New York, Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. She graduated from St. Peter and Paul high school in St. Thomas and moved to NYC where she modeled for five years for Elite. She met her husband at the polo club. All that is true. But she mostly likes to make up stories.
Social Media Links –
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeforAlexander/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jennifermacaire/
twitter @jennifermacaire
https://jennifermacaire.wordpress.com/
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