Slave Of The Drowned Shore: A Bronze Age Time Travel Romance

She spent her career studying the people who survived the end of the Bronze Age. Then she became one of them.Dr. Mara Keating knows how civilizations die.An underwater archaeologist excavating a mysterious shipwreck off the coast of Crete, she has built her career around a controversial theory: the feared Sea Peoples weren't a single invading army. They were refugees, mercenaries, slaves and survivors who became a people only after the world they knew began to collapse.Then an earthquake traps Mara inside a flooded cave.When she surfaces, the ruins she has spent years studying are standing.Alive.And doomed.More than three thousand years in the past, Mara is a foreign woman with no recognized family, city or king. By the laws of this brutal world, that makes her property. She is claimed by Theron, the hard-eyed commander charged with defending the prosperous coastal city of Asteron-and the one man powerful enough to keep anyone else from claiming her.Theron doesn't believe Mara's impossible warnings. Mara knows his city will burn.Neither knows how little time they have.As harvests fail, refugees gather beyond the walls and unpaid warriors turn against the kings who betrayed them, Mara watches the familiar evidence of history assembling around her: foreign weapons, abandoned homes, desperate families and ships preparing to carry entire lives across the sea.But archaeology never told her about the people.It never told her about Theron.And if Mara survives the destruction of Asteron, she may finally discover who the Sea Peoples really were-because she is about to become one of them.A dark, high-heat time-travel historical fantasy of obsession, survival and forbidden love set against the catastrophic end of the Bronze Age.