Albert Noyer
ASIN: B00LCCY5WY
Publisher: A Studio 29 Publication
Pages: 325
A body found in Jerusalem's Holy Sepulcher leads to a sex-cult and Arcadia's abduction: a Bedouin warlord will sell her to the highest bidder.Travelling to the Holy Land, Surgeon Getorius Asterius and Arcadia stop at Cyprus. A street play turns bawdy at the antics of Aphrodisia, an actress-prostitute. Moshe ben Asher, aged leader of Hebrew refugees, asks for help in escaping on their galley. At sea, Aphrodisia curses crewmen who brought her aboard; she disappears at Ascalon. Abd al-Shira becomes the couple's guide. At Jerusalem's Holy Sepulcher, Deacon Delphinus, nephew of Bishop Juvenal, is infatuated with Arcadia. He has a K branded on an earlobe, as did galley-master Saturnilos. Inside Christ's tomb chamber, the body of a man is discovered lying on the burial slab, also branded with a K. Delphinus admits he knows him, and later lures Arcadia to a secret Karpocratian sect that holds ...