Bradley, Marion Z.: PRIESTESS OF AVALON

Eilan is taken to her father, King Coel, and raised in the Roman way as Helena, but in the year A.D.259 the ten-year-old girl is returned to Avalon, the mystical place of her birth, to begin her training as a priestess and learn the ways of the Goddess. Yet her Aunt Ganeda, now High Priestess, is determined that Helena shall fail.

Despite the odds, Helena grows to be a skilled healer and a compassionate and gifted priestess, and on the moonlit night of her initiation the sees the face of the Roman, Constantius, the man she will love for the rest of her life. Her vision also reveals that he will father the one whose light will blaze across the world, the one who will free Britannia from Roman tyranny...

AUTHORS:  Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson

COVER: paperback

PAGES: 382

LANGUAGE: english