Echoes of Ancient Egyptian and Mayan Empires Reverberate in Present-Day Romantic Adventure

Online, February 9, 2011 (Newswire.com) - In a new novel published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc., The Daughters of Isis, author June White delivers a classic tale of romance, restitution, and redemption in a present-day setting that evokes and echoes Cleopatra's story and that of her children and their own legacy.

Today's protestors in the streets of Cairo are the proud descendants of the once incomparable, great, and powerful Egyptian Empire that spanned three thousand years. Ruled by divine pharaohs, ancient Egypt contributed much to the advances of civilization through its remarkable achievements in the areas of science, medicine, language, art, architecture, building, governance, and religion. The last of the powerful pharaohs was Queen Cleopatra, the beautiful and, some would say, ruthless queen who claimed to be a reincarnation of the Egyptian Goddess Isis and whose political and military ambitions catapulted her into the center of Roman conflict and contention for power and supremacy at the highest levels of Roman authority. Her alliances and romances with both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony are legendary for their drama and their tragedy alike, and while, after her military defeat, Octavian killed the child that Cleopatra bore to Julius Caesar, her children from her marriage to Marc Antony were allowed to live, even after Octavian took over Egypt following the deaths of their parents.

In The Daughters of Isis, we learn that Dr. Samantha Becker has been hired by a museum in Texas, because of her doctorates in both Native American history and Egyptology, to develop a new concept, teaching museum, featuring intriguing displays, stunning architectural designs, and innovative landscaping. Dr. Becker is in the midst of installing an inventive Native American exhibit, and the museum is importing a temple display from the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo. As the story unfolds, Dr. Becker and her relatives, who we find are descendants of Cleopatra and the Goddess Isis living in the United States, are drawn into a wild and dangerous set of relationships and circumstances that culminate in their perilous involvement in removing evil from a temple site of yet another great civilization, the Mayan Empire of Mexico, and its temple in the jungle at Tulum. Through the use of supernatural powers and intense physical conflict, the daughters of Isis and their collaborators overcome the force of evil that has invaded the ancient temple. By the fierce intervention of the story's heroic protagonists, the Orb of Isis reclaims the sanctity and purity of the temple ruins, and evil retreats from earth to its rightful place in the netherworld.

Author June White, a native of San Antonio, lives there with her husband, James. She is a retired education and training specialist for the United States Air Force. For more information on The Daughters if Isis, by June White, (Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc./ ISBN 978-1-4349-0934-3/ paperback/ $22.00 retail price) please contact Jessica Cunningham Stillwell, Dorrance Promotion Manager, at 701 Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222, phone: (412) 288-4543, or fax: (412) 434-8430, or go to www.dorrancepressroom.com. To place a book order, request a review copy, or to inquire about shipping costs, tax, and our returns policy, please call our merchandising coordinator at (800) 788-7654 or go to http://dorrance.stores.yahoo.net/daofis.html.