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    Searching For Zeus
    Searching For Zeus
    Searching For Zeus
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    Searching For Zeus

    By K. E. MacLeod

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    This is the year that Cori Rhodes turns sixteen and, unlike most other girls, she doesn’t want a fancy party, pretty dresses or limousines. Instead, Cori just wants one thing: to find the father that abandoned her as a baby.

    For most of her young life, thoughtful, bright and slightly weird Cori has wondered about the mysterious man with whom she shares a last name - made even more mysterious by the fact that her mother refuses to talk about him.

    Is he a secret government agent on the run? Perhaps even a half-blooded elven lord who was forced to abandon her so that he could return to his own world? Or maybe he’s a dashing gypsy king, roving far and wide, searching for his long-lost, beloved daughter?

    Well, whoever he is, Cori hopes that once he’s found that he’ll save her from the jerks at school, maybe even buy her a car or just simply whisk her away from the small-minded town that she finds herself trapped in.

    But not all epic tales end the way we hope and the truths she learns become far more important than any of her mythic-tinged fantasies.

    Searching For Zeus is a story about the inevitable journey that we all make when, at last, we say goodbye to our childhoods and embark upon the path that will turn us into adults.

    It is a story of love, pain, loss but, more importantly, becoming the person you were always truly meant to be.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherK. E. MacLeod
    Release dateNov 4, 2012
    ISBN9781301046775
    Searching For Zeus
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    K. E. MacLeod

    K. E. MacLeod is a Pacific Northwest novelist who writes high fantasy and speculative fiction. Karen has taught English composition, speech, acting, directing, reading for the classroom teacher, and theatre history. She is also a narrator, having performed in and directed plays ranging from Shakespeare to modern drama, produced and provided on-air talent for educational television and radio, and narrated a symphony production of Peter and the Wolf. Awards include: First Place, Adult Fiction, Pacific Northwest Writers Association; Finalist, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Pacific Northwest Writers Association; Finalist, fiction and poetry, North by Northwest Writers/Write on the Sound. Elected to Phi Beta, national fraternity for professionals in the performing arts.

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