Promised Child by Holly Sullivan McClure
“When seven hundred years have passed,
the leaves of the bay tree will turn green again.”
The year was 1321, and these prophetic words were cried
from the martyr’s fire by Guillaume Belebaste, the last Cathar Perfecti.
On a November night in 2003, in the bayous of Louisiana, a young Cajun girl learns she is a final link in a chain forged long before the time of the Christ. Her enemies want her dead. Her friends offer her safety and a life in hiding. She maps her own path, and a prophecy is fulfilled.
From ruins of past glory and promise, the martyrs have returned to fulfill the prophecy of the last Perfecti. In expectation of the child who ushers in the dawn of the Light of Lights, they wait..
REVIEW:
This book isn’t the next DaVinci Code, nor is it intended to be. It goes far beyond where that book stopped. It’s far more timely and topical, tapping into the growing awareness of the ancient Gnostic
tradition. While there are other books out there that have reflected some of these themes, I don’t believe any have done so in either the intuitively and historically accurate way that Promised Child does, with such a natural, storytelling flow. Nor do any look into the future in quite the arresting way that this book does.
Brenda English:
author of Corruption of Faith, Corruption of Justice, and Corruption of Power; Berkley and
co author of The Intuitive Heart, with Dr. Henry Reed. Past editor in Chief of ARE Press.
About the author. Holly Sullivan McClure is the author of fiction and non-fiction, president of Sullivan Maxx Literary Agency, and a priest ordained in the Celtic Christian Church.