Priestess of Pompeii: The Initiate’s Journey Book I, Sandra Hurt’s debut novel, easily could have taken the Oedipus route forward from infant abandonment to tragedy. Hurt, however, moves the story of the newborn Rufilla along a complexity of pathways to plumb a scenario closer to the story of Moses. Herein, we are led to consider the underlying concepts of ‘fate’ and faith, prophecy and prophetic calling, destined’ and destiny, providence and provide.
Be assured, at the forefront of Rufilla’s coming-of-age story is Hurt’s engaging panorama of Pompeii and its surrounding sites and cities, trade routes and industries before 79 A.D., before the tragic events of Mount Vesuvius buried the flourishing city, scattering those who could flee, encasing in hot lava those who could not. Hurt builds an epic with what is known and what eventually is surmised about Pompeii, based upon excavations that began in the mid-18th century.
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