A Journey Across a Fractured Empire: The Quest for the Crown of Thorns by Cynthia Ripley Miller

 

In The Quest for the Crown of Thorns, Cynthia Ripley Miller continues the sweeping Long-Hair Saga with a powerful blend of history, faith, danger, and devotion.

✔️ A sweeping historical adventure set in the aftermath of Attila the Hun

✔️ Newlyweds drawn from peace into peril

✔️ A sacred relic that could alter the course of history

✔️ Political intrigue, betrayal, and imperial corruption

✔️ A dangerous journey across a fractured Roman world

✔️ A marriage tested and strengthened by faith and loyalty

✔️ Ruthless enemies and a secret cult determined to seize the Crown

✔️ Meticulously researched fifth-century setting

Check out the blurb:

AD 454. Three years after the Roman victory over
Attila the Hun at Catalaunum, Arria Felix and Garic the Frank are married and enjoying life on Garic’s farm in northern Gaul (France). Their happy life is interrupted when a cryptic message arrives from Arria’s father, the esteemed Senator Felix, calling them to Rome. At Arria’s insistence, but against Garic’s better judgment, they leave at once.

On their arrival at Villa Solis, they are confronted with a brutal murder and a dangerous mission. The fate of a profound and sacred object—Christ’s Crown of Thorns—rests in their hands. They must carry the holy relic to the safety of Constantinople, away from a corrupt emperor and old enemies determined to steal it for their own gain. But a greater force arises against them—a secret cult who will commit any atrocity to capture the Crown. All the while, the gruesome murder and the conspiracy behind it haunt Arria’s thoughts.

Arria and Garic’s marital bonds are tested but forged as they partner together to fulfill one of history’s most challenging missions, The Quest for the Crown of Thorns.

The Quest for the Crown of Thorns is available now in eBook and paperback, inviting readers to experience an epic journey of faith, danger, and devotion at the heart of the Long-Hair Saga. Pick up your copy HERE.

Cynthia Ripley Miller is a first-generation Italian-American writer with a love for history, languages, and books. She has lived, worked, and traveled in Europe, Africa, North America, and the Caribbean. As a girl, she often wondered what it would be like to journey through time (she still does), yet she knew it could only be through the imagination and words of writers and their stories. Today, she writes to bring the past to life. 

Cynthia holds two degrees and has taught history and teaches English. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthology Summer Tapestry and The Scriptor. A Chanticleer International Chatelaine Award finalist for her novel On the Edge of Sunrise, she has reviewed for UNRV Roman History and blogs at Historical Happenings and Oddities: A Distant Focus and on her website. 

Cynthia has four children and lives with her husband, twin cats, Romulus and Remus, and Jessie, a German Shepherd, in a suburb of Chicago. On the Edge of Sunrise is the first in the Long-Hair Sagas; a series set in late ancient Rome and France and published by Booklocker.

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