Return to Exile
Lynne Gentry
Howard Books/Simon and Schuster, Jan 6 2015, $14.99
ISBN: 9781476746364
In present day Dallas, Dr. Lisbeth Hasting struggles to prevent a
possible measles epidemic that already cost the life of a young mother. As she waits for the arrival of CDC, Lisbeth
sees a note with three stick figures written and drawn by her five years old
daughter Maggie to Santa asking him to help her meet her daddy. Lisbeth knows her child will never see her
daddy becasue barrister Cyprianus Thracius
resides in third century Roman controlled Carthage.
Since the love of his life returned to her time,
Cyprian has lost everything that matters including his belief in Christ; he
wants to die. Instead family friend Ruth
persuades him to marry her. With
pregnant Ruth at his side, Cyprian finds a purpose to live. However, learning of her mate’s deadly fate,
Lisbeth, accompanied by Maggie, returns to ancient Carthage only to find she
left an apparent twenty-first century epidemic to enter the middle of a third
century epidemic.
The second Chronicles of Carthage saga (see
Healer of Carthage) is a thrilling time travel medical romance. The storyline starts slow when the lead
couple remains eighteen hundred years apart, but accelerates into hyperspeed once
they reunite as they deal with a personal crisis and a terrible disease. Although Maggie gets away with causing too
many endangerment incidents (parental discipline is lacking), Return to Exile
is a winner with a surprise late twist that sets up the next chronicle.
Harriet Klausner
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