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To Grasp the Miraculous, AD 593: 607
To Grasp the Miraculous, AD 593: 607
To Grasp the Miraculous, AD 593: 607
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On Titus’s recall from banishment, his jubilation is short-lived. First, the Lombard King threatens him. Second, a man he had freed from slavery attempts to kill him. He must find a new life beyond the reach of King, Pope and Emperor -- the unknown wilds of Scotland.

There, he and Adria coax the earth to provide. And they are content, man and wife. But the skeletal hand that comes for all mortal flesh touches Adria.

Will Titus -- educated, philosophical Titus, his earthly work at an end -- hurl himself from the cliffs to follow her?

To Grasp the Miraculous, AD 593 -- 607 is a dramatic exultation of the wedded life. Gripping. Emotive. It’s a short read, but a memorable one. Read it today.
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This novella completes the Tribonian Trilogy. Each of the books is self-contained without a cliff-hanger at the end.

The three books in the Trilogy are listed below. They may be read separately in any order, each to powerful effect. But there is a forward thrust throughout the Trilogy. I guess the reason for that is when I wrote the first words of To Forestall ("'Putrid!' Titus said, sniffing the air and curling his lips in revulsion."), the final scenes of To Grasp (on the cliffs of Scotland) had already been revealed.

To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome, AD 589 (pub 2013)
To Abandon Rome, AD 593 (pub 2017)
To Grasp the Miraculous, AD 593 - 607 A Novella of the Dark Ages (pub 2020)

Author's remark:
All my work would be classified as "literary fiction". This does not mean it is high-brow, dry or difficult to understand. It's not. It's dramatic, emotion-filled and grips the heart. What the classification as "literary" means is it is not a genre work and does not follow a familiar storyline. (The author's website contains a further explanation of the term "literary fiction.")

LanguageEnglish
PublisherVann Turner
Release dateSep 27, 2020
ISBN9781735702919
To Grasp the Miraculous, AD 593: 607
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Vann Turner

Although author Vann Turner was born in West Palm Beach, FL, he cannot call that home. He attended thirteen different schools, in thirteen different locales, before he graduated from Pensacola High School in 1966. His parents thought the best graduation present would be a suitcase. Vann took the hint and left. By tending bar and cooking he earned his BA in English (Latin minor).He went on to teach high school one year, became an avid backpacker, did a stint in the Army, was domestic chef to British nobility in Greenwich, CT, became an amateur bodybuilder, used his medic training to work in hospitals, then went on to transcribe medical dictation using WordPerfect 5.1. During this time he wrote three gay short stories. The first magazines he sent them to bought them. Maybe he could tell a story and had something to say besides.He then began working on his first novel, completing it in 1992. That novel came close to acceptance by a major publisher, but in the end it was no cigar. He told himself he needed to write full time, but he needed an income so he could quit his job and write. If he had something to sell on that new fangled thing, the World Wide Web, that'd provide the income he needed.So he learned coding. He wrote and sold medical transcription software, MedPen, on the internet. But that decision did not pan out as he had hoped. It sapped all his time and creativity and he wrote not a word of fiction until he sold the business in September, 2009.The next day his long-time partner (and future husband when it became legal in 2014) asked him what he was going to do with his time. He said he was going to write. Bob nodded and asked him to dust off that 1992 novel. Vann responded that he had other stories to tell as well and he was going to write a novel set after the fall of Rome but before the solid onset of the Dark Ages, a time ripe with conflicts, Roman tradition versus Germanic custom, Christianity versus the old gods, the human heart struggling against itself and external constraints.Vann has always been a shy person and now is something of a recluse in his mountain home with his dogs. (His husband passed in May of 2017.) He is not on Facebook or Twitter. You see, the mindless and anonymous blather there gives him the heebie-jeebies. But he loves interacting with people one on one. So if you’d like to send him an email, he will answer you.vann@vannturner.com

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