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Vulture’s Kiss

A Sequel to The 100th Generation

The Prophecy of the Ibis god – of the Balance, and the Book, and the Bearing of the Child -- has been fulfilled, but that, it turns out, was the easy part.

Seth and the Almighty Aton will not step aside so lightly as the gods of nature send their own holy family into the world. The family, alas, is all too mortal, as is the otherworldly Ka, and the Book, though written, is not read.

There are hostile forces all along the way, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists who threaten the family and the peace, and a nameless malevolence that follows the family everywhere. Valerie needs all the allies she can get. Allies and love. She looks for both in a tough Arab-Israeli journalist and in the mysterious Vulture goddess herself, though it is the goddess, who is the bearer of the dreadful news.

For Valerie learns that she is part of a twisted lineage, one with a troubled relationship to all the faces of God throughout the centuries. She has ancestors whose blood soaked the ground on both sides of the Crusades and as a scientist, she is the last person to argue on behalf of animal-headed divinities. Worst of all, she finds herself in the city which is the very wellspring of the One God, Jerusalem, where a mortal blow once was struck on the 100th Generation.

Will the holy places of Jerusalem, sustained by the stunning power of faith, thwart the return of the old religion or reveal it in a whole new light? Valerie finds love, and hate, and staggering revelations in this most troubled city.