"[Darkwitch Rising] exhibits the same powerful imagination as its predecessors...[and is] enriched by the author's historical and folkloric expertise." "�Darkwitch Rising� exhibits the same powerful imagination as its predecessors...�and is� enriched by the author's historical and folkloric expertise." "Combining history, myth and fantasy, Sara Douglass introduces her new Troy Game series with the first book Hades' Daughter...Ms. Douglass recreates the Aegean world and a Pre-Celtic England in a sweeping epic that grabs your attention at the first page." --Romantic Times BookClub (4 1/2 stars) on Hades' Daughter (Book One of the Troy Game series)"There is sex and violence aplenty...the taste for this mythic fantasy saga must be acquired, but acquirers will relish it keenly." --Booklist on Hades' Daughter (Book One of the Troy Game series)"An ambitious fantasy series." --Publisher's Weekly on God's Concubine (Book Two of the Troy Game series)"A rich and complex novel full of rich and complex characters." --SF Chronicle on God's Concubine (Book Two of the Troy Game series)"The prolix third book in Australian author Douglass's Troy Game historical fantasy saga (after 2004's God's Concubine) exhibits the same powerful imagination as its predecessors...[and is] enriched by the author's historical and folkloric expertise." --Publishers Weekly on Darkwitch Rising Combining history, myth and fantasy, Sara Douglass introduces her new Troy Game series with the first book Hades' Daughter...Ms. Douglass recreates the Aegean world and a Pre-Celtic England in a sweeping epic that grabs your attention at the first page. Romantic Times BookClub (4 1/2 stars) on Hades' Daughter (Book One of the Troy Game series) There is sex and violence aplenty...the taste for this mythic fantasy saga must be acquired, but acquirers will relish it keenly. Booklist on Hades' Daughter (Book One of the Troy Game series) An ambitious fantasy series. Publisher's Weekly on God's Concubine (Book Two of the Troy Game series) A rich and complex novel full of rich and complex characters. SF Chronicle on God's Concubine (Book Two of the Troy Game series) The prolix third book in Australian author Douglass's Troy Game historical fantasy saga (after 2004's God's Concubine) exhibits the same powerful imagination as its predecessors...[and is] enriched by the author's historical and folkloric expertise. Publishers Weekly on Darkwitch Rising" Combining history, myth and fantasy, Sara Douglass introduces her new Troy Game series with the first book "Hades' Daughter."..Ms. Douglass recreates the Aegean world and a Pre-Celtic England in a sweeping epic that grabs your attention at the first page. "Romantic Times BookClub (4 1/2 stars) on Hades' Daughter (Book One of the Troy Game series)" There is sex and violence aplenty...the taste for this mythic fantasy saga must be acquired, but acquirers will relish it keenly. "Booklist on Hades' Daughter (Book One of the Troy Game series)" An ambitious fantasy series. "Publisher's Weekly on God's Concubine (Book Two of the Troy Game series)" A rich and complex novel full of rich and complex characters. "SF Chronicle on God's Concubine (Book Two of the Troy Game series)" The prolix third book in Australian author Douglass's Troy Game historical fantasy saga (after 2004's "God's Concubine") exhibits the same powerful imagination as its predecessors...[and is] enriched by the author's historical and folkloric expertise. "Publishers Weekly on Darkwitch Rising"" "Combining history, myth and fantasy, Sara Douglass introduces her new Troy Game series with the first book "Hades' Daughter."..Ms. Douglass recreates the Aegean world and a Pre-Celtic England in a sweeping epic that grabs your attention at the first page."--"Romantic Times BookClub" (4 1/2 stars) on "Hades' Daughter" (Book One of the Troy Game series) "There is sex and violence aplenty...the taste for this mythic fantasy saga must be acquired, but acquirers will relish it keenly."--"Booklist "on H"ades' Daughter" (Book One of the Troy Game series) "An ambitious fantasy series."--"Publisher's Weekly" on "God's Concubine" (Book Two of the Troy Game series) "A rich and complex novel full of rich and complex characters."--"SF Chronicle" on "God's Concubine" (Book Two of the Troy Game series) "The prolix third book in Australian author Douglass's Troy Game historical fantasy saga (after 2004's "God's Concubine") exhibits the same powerful imagination as its predecessors...[and is] enriched by the author's historical and folkloric expertise."--"Publishers Weekly "on "Darkwitch Rising"

Sara Douglass was born in Penola, a small farming settlement in the south of Australia. She has a Ph.D. in Early Modern English History. Since 1995 Sara has been Australia's leading author of fantasy and one of its top novelists. She lives in Tasmania.