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Title: Soul Flame

Author: Barbara Wood

Narrator: Maureen Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-16

Publisher: Cherry Hill Publishing, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Born into the tumultuous world of ancient Antioch, Selene is orphaned at birth. But before her father dies, he leaves a puzzling clue to her heritage: She has come from the gods and has a special destiny to fulfill.

In the coming years, Selene studies the primitive healing arts with Mera, the healer-woman who adopts her. She learns how to lower fevers by brewing Hecate's Cure from the willow tree, how to apply green mold to an open wound to prevent infection, and, most important, how to calm a patient by summoning the inner power of the "soul flame". But on her 16th birthday, Selene falls in love with Andreas, a passionate and troubled surgeon. When fate cruelly separates them, Selene's search for Andreas takes her to the great centers of civilization in the ancient world - Egypt, Babylon, and Rome. Desperate to find Andreas, Selene is torn between love and her dreams of healing when a revolutionary vision brings her to the fulfillment of her destiny - and the dawn of modern medicine.

Members Reviews:

Only discovered Barbara Wood

in the past year and I don't know whether to cry that I missed her works before, or rejoice that I've discovered them and can look forward to reading all of her backlist. Just a phenomenal writer. I have seen some of the critiques about plot devices/coincidences and if one is of that bent, you can probably find some complaints if you are very picky, but none of that bothers me because her ability to transport one into another time and place is exceptional. I see that she diligently/obsessively researches and travels to the places she writes about, but there is a verisimilitude in her writing that to me goes beyond research or travel - it is almost as if Wood can transport herself to another time and place to give life to her books or the great collective unconscious that sometimes fuels writers looks upon her with great favor.

Epic Quest Set in the Roman Empire

The 400+ page saga of Barbara Wood's heroine, Selene, begins with a mysterious birth in the ancient city of Antioch durng the time of the first Caesars of the Roman Empire. Two fugitives, a well-to-do Roman and his in-labor wife, appear on the doorstep of the healing woman, Mera who performs a hasty midwifery minutes before Roman soldiers appear, kill the new father and haul away his wife and baby son. Unbeknownst to them, Mera, hidden in a grain container, has saved the baby daughter and at the bequest of the dying Roman, rears the child, Selene, as her own, teaching her the art of healing while keeping the Roman's ring and the key to Selene's true heritage secreted within an alabaster rose pendant.

As Selene grows into a lovely young woman, Mera's training brings to fruition a competent compassionate healer with a special gift for the medical arts and a curiosity to discover and gather the medical lores and practices of many cultures both familiar and foreign. Her natural inquisitiveness is piqued during a freak accident in the Antioch streets: a donkey driver, hit by the legs of a kicking animal, lies with a head wound in the street. When Selene compels a Greek doctor, Andreas, to treat the wound, she falls helplessly in love with him and together they decide to pool their learning and dedicate their lives to promoting the ancient art of healing while simultaneously alieviating the suffering of the sick.