By the Shores of the Middle Sea is the second novel in Dana Stabenow's Silk and Song Trilogy.
In Everything Under the Heavens, 16-year old Johanna fled Cambaluc-and her murderous stepmother-joining her uncle's westbound caravan on the Silk Road.
With her foster brother Jaufre and a few faithful companions, they made it to the rooftop of the world-Terak Pass-separating Mongol China from the scattered sheikdoms of the Persian empire.
Then, disaster struck.
In a climactic skirmish, Johanna and her stallion, North Wind, were abducted and Jaufre left for dead.
Now, in By the Shores of the Middle Sea, Johanna is a prisoner in the harem at Talikan, with Baron Ogodei's army pillaging the countryside and preparing to sack the tiny Persian enclave.
Hundreds of leagues to the south, in Kabul, Jaufre lies recovering from his near-fatal wound.
Their journey has taken them halfway across a continent, yet an equal distance still lies between them and Gaza, where Johanna and Jaufre once meant to take ship for Venice and the sanctuary of Johanna's grandfather's family.
Gaza and Venice: two cities on opposite shores of the Middle Sea that together open a door to the West.
For Johanna and Jaufre, it's a passage that will shape their destiny, if only they can reach it.
About the Author: Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage and raised on 75-foot fish tender in the Gulf of Alaska.
She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere and after having a grand old time working in the Prudhoe Bay oilfields on the North Slope of Alaska, making an obscene amount of money and going to Hawaii a lot, found it in writing.
Her first crime fiction novel, A Cold Day for Murder, won an Edgar award, her first thriller, Blindfold Game, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her twenty-ninth novel and twentieth entry in the Kate Shugak series, Bad Blood, was released in February 2013.
Find her on the web at stabenow.
| Venice | Two cities on opposite shores of the |
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| Author | Dana |
Gere Donovan Press By the shores of the middle sea: book ii of silk and song, paperback/dana stabenow
