Eva's Secret

Secretly sure she is worthless to all but her cat, Eva falls into the hands of a man defined by his terrible scars. Now that her powerful family is destroyed, this pock-marked Moor’s choices — once the subject of a childish fairy-tale — become personal: can the curse of rejection be broken, or will ambition win his soul?

The response of ordinary people to the cruelties of a harsh time and the moral challenges of slavery and the Spanish Inquisition drive this heart-warming tale of beautiful, strife-torn sixteenth-century Granada.

M.L. Eqatin believes in the power of romance, having been involved in one for three decades with her husband J. A truly romantic pairing does not depend on good looks, flowery phrases or sex, but rather what the lovers come to mean to each other and what they are willing to sacrifice as a result. In its highest form, romance is a unity of soul, flesh and spirit which gives a man and a woman wings to rise above brokenness and self-centeredness and touch the divine.

Animal characters are a constant in all M.L.E’s fiction. Experiences with ‘creature therapy’ gained from years of sharing the family home with abused women and their children has shown that interaction between species, so limited in the industrialized world, is a vital part of learning to be human. Fortunately for us, regardless of the century or the setting, a cat is always a cat.

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