Other Gods: The Averillan Chronicles

Barbara Reichmuth Geisler. Lost Coast Press, $16.95 (286pp) ISBN 978-1-882897-64-3

Women prevail in Barbara Reichmuth Geisler's first novel, Other Gods: The Averillan Chronicles, set in the aftermath of the Norman invasion of England in the mid-12th century. Dame Averilla struggles to protect her Benedictine abbey when an important book is stolen, another nun goes missing and an alleged witch suddenly returns.

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