Scarlet Letter 2: The Wrath of Hester

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I wish that I was making this up. Coming February 16, 2010:



From Amazon:

Upon the death of her demonic husband, Hester Prynne is left a widow, and her daughter Pearl, a wealthy heiress. Hester takes her daughter to live a quiet life in England--only to find herself drawn into the circle of the most powerful Puritan of all time, Oliver Cromwell.

From the moment Hester donned the famous scarlet letter, it instilled in her the power to see the sins and hypocrisy of others, an ability not lost on the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. To Cromwell, Hester's sight is either a sign of sorcery or a divine gift that Hester must use to assist the divinely chosen in his scheming to control England.  Since sorcery carries a death sentence, Hester is compelled against her will to use her sight to assist Cromwell. She soon finds herself entangled in a web of political intrigue, espionage, and forbidden love.

Hester will carry readers away to seventeenth century England with a deeply human story of family, love, history, desire, weakness, and the human ideal.

Publisher's Weekly, which just published an early review, adds:

The reviewer also notes that "t's hard to imagine Hester using a word like "cock"..."

Yeah, this will end well. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to finish my book "Ishmael" where Ish becomes a pirate and falls into a love/hate relationship with the were-white whale, Ahab. Theirs was a love than could not be contained by the stormy seas....