Length of Novel:

82,820 words

Keywords and Market Focus:

Fiction, Egypt, Ancient Egypt, World War II, Tomb, Suspense, Mummy, Archeology, Mystery, Germany, France, Britain, Berlin, Hitler, Eve Braun; will fascinate anyone interested in mystery and suspense—will appeal particularly to those who enjoy archeological historical mystery and suspense novels.

Genre:

Fiction Suspense

Synopsis: 

A pall spreads over the world with the beginning of World War II. The darkness is both a physical and spiritual miasma. Colonel Paul Bolang, a special officer in the French Alpine Corps, is assigned, with his men, to support the Allied operations against the Germans in Norway. His wife, Leora Bolang and their children Lumie’re, Robert, Jacques, and Marie are left in sunny Hyères, France.

Paul and Leora share a secret they have never divulged to their children or to their closest friends. Leora is the incarnation of the goddess of light, herself reintroduced into the world from a 4000 year old tomb. Paul, her warrior, has a power beyond that of normal humans. Unfortunately, when Paul released Leora, Leora’s sister, the goddess of darkness, Leila was also released into the world. Leila delights in darkness and the deaths of men. 4000 years ago, Leora and Leila were displaced with the entire pantheon of the Egyptian gods when Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt. Now Leila wants revenge—revenge against the people who displaced her and revenge against the world—“that is her purpose.”

Paul is still on assignment when Germany invades France. Leora and her children barely escape the clutches of German troops through the help of Major Lyons leading a British Special Forces Team. They are shipped to Britain with only the clothes on their back. In Britain, Matilda Hastings, Tilly, rescues them, and Leora discovers she was, weeks before, invited to a royal function. How did Lyons know the Germans were coming for them? How did Tilly know to help them? Why the predestined invitation? Who knows about Leora and Paul’s secrets, and who is helping them?

Worse, the Osiris Offering Formula, a small black tablet Leila desires, lay protected and safe at the house in Hyères—now it is missing. If Leila gets her hands on the offering formula, she will be able to influence the world a hundred fold greater with her evil. Leila controls men through their own dark desires. With the offering formula, her power will increase.

As war spreads, Leora must deal with Paul’s loss, her sister’s interference in the world, the violent world around her, and finally, her daughter, Lumie’re’s strange dreams and desires. The novel, The Goddess of Darkness leads through the dark days of World War II from its beginning to a spiritual confrontation at its conclusion. Leora and Paul face enemies and threats throughout, yet they persevere to the bitter end—an end where they must directly confront Leila and their own daughter.

Author's reviewer’s quotes: 

Poor Lumie’re.  Paul and Leora’s daughter becomes a pawn of forces she can barely understand or face.  Her choices, like ours are never what they seem and never what she truly desires.

The Goddess of Darkness is nonstop action and adventure.  Where else can you meet many of the major players in World War II, at dinner?

Here is a novel you can really sink your teeth into.  If you like history, it’s there.  If you like adventure, it’s there.  If you want suspense, you won’t be disappointed.

Short descriptive teasers: 

World War II plays out through the lives of the unique Leora and Paul Bolang and their children—Paul and Leora must confront and defeat the spiritual evil that undergirds the Reich’s aggression and defeat it.

Leora, the goddess of light and Paul Bolang, her warrior, must confront the greatest evil in the world; in the process they may lose their lives and souls or even worse their daughter.