Asha in Time

by Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

Overview

She was a normal girl with two normal parents, growing up normally in a small town far away from her fundamentalist adoptive grandparents. The only abnormal thing about Svana was that her parents believed her biological father was a sword wielding would-be murderer, but that’s their little secret not meant to be talked about in polite company.
She was just about to celebrate her thirteenth birthday (in a normal fashion for a normal soon-to-be teenager) when everything went abnormally wrong. Svana, the child who was always encouraged to be average, was about to become something far more than that. She was being called to her destiny, whether or not her mother thought that was appropriate.
For, in ancient Egypt, thirteen was a magical number. At thirteen, a girl was a woman. At thirteen, a girl owned her own body, her own future. At thirteen, a girl should have been thinking of marriages and babies, occupations and household making. At thirteen, a girl was encouraged to tempt fate and future with her own seductive hands. Svana was called to learn these things and learn them quickly, as a far larger plan was being set in motion all around and because of her.
Svana is just one of the many female characters introduced in “Asha in Time,” a YA novel that reawakens one of the most golden ages in Egyptian lore. Svana, the sable haired, exotic pariah of the modern day, found that her thirteenth birthday would bring with it the chance to take her place in history as a queen. Yet, she would have to adopt every extraordinary aspect of Egyptian culture to take up that role she was fated for and, most difficult of all, she would have to lose her heart to one of the most powerful, determined teenage kings to have ever breathed. Only the strongest among women could shoulder that yoke and Svana, after all, was only thirteen.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012959409
Publisher:	M.N. Maloney
Publication date:	06/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	247 KB

About the Author

Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney is a twenty two year old interfaith minister and author living in Northern Illinois with her husband (yes, she did hyphenate that long last name and no, she doesn’t expect you to pronounce it correctly). When she’s not working on her novels she’s helping couples of all faiths get married, reading extensively, and addictively watching football. Since May of 2011, she has been able to say she’s a college grad with a degree in human services and a certificate in the sociology of life issues. She emerged on the scene with her first novel when she was twenty one and then months later with an appearance in Why We Wrote: Volume 3. She uses her background in human behavior and cultural sensitivity to imbue her characters with genuine thoughts, feelings, and deeds. In a review of her first novel Autumnal Dancer the Rock River Times said that the book was, “a means of transportation back to a time when nature and magic were joined, in which mysterious, whispering voices call out to the people in the present.”