Soul Flame by Barbara Wood (1987)

Soul Flame
by Barbara Wood
Publisher:  Random House
Copyright:  1987
Book Club Edition

The best-selling author of Domina and Vital Signs combines her superb storytelling gifts with medical and historic fact to create her biggest, most engrossing novel to date.  Soul Flame is the epic adventure of an unusual and gifted young woman seeking her destiny in the ancient healing arts.  It is a novel on the grand scale:  filled with medical lore and ancient history, barbaric violence and sexual decadence; alive with conflict and adventure, overpowering love and fate.

Born into the tumultuous world of ancient Antioch, Selene is orphaned at birth.  But before her father dies, he leaves a puzzling clue to her heritage:  she has come from the gods and will have a special destiny to fulfill.

From Mera, the healer-woman who adopts her, Selene learns the primitive healing arts:  how to lower fevers by brewing Hecate's Cure from the willow tree (an early source of salicylic acid); how to apply green mold to an open wound to prevent infection; and most important, how to calm a patient by summoning up the inner power of the "soul flame."  On her sixteenth birthday, Selene falls in love with Andreas, a passionate and troubled surgeon, and when they are cruelly separated, her search for him takes her to the great centers of civilization in the ancient world -- Egypt, Babylon and Rome.  Everywhere about healing.  And then a revolutionary vision brings her to the fulfillment of her destiny, and to the dawn of modern medicine.  Soul Flame is sure to excite Barbara Wood's many loyal fans, and to win her many more.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover is lightly discolored, scuffed and shows wear and tear.  Pages are tanned from age.  Binding is beginning to split, but pages are in tact.

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