Maria Stark Fiedler
Description
A young girl in twentieth century Germany receives some startling news from her dying aunt: the family descended from royalty dating centuries back. B
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ut the tale is a tragic one, a drama that came to a fiery end, with the once-sacred hill still visible from the aunt's window. The heroine of Sacred Hill is another young girl, Maria, who is approaching her sixteenth birthday. Her family is poor as are most of the people in the village where she lives with her parents and her brother, Adam. The village people live in the shadow of a temple, a mysterious place of great wealth and carnal sins. Maria learns of her royal lineage and a well-guarded Bible in the temple that confirms her claim to the title of princess as granddaughter of a Roman prince. After a temple guard tells her where the Bible is kept, she devises a plan to unlock its secrets. Will she get the Bible? Who will win her heart? All these answers and more await withing The Sacred Hill.
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Genres
Literary Fiction
Tags
Fiction
Religious
Reading Moods
Epic & Grand
Tragic & Heart-Wrenching
Mysterious & Intriguing
Contributors
No contributors specified
Publishing Info
Publisher
Dorrance Publishing Company, Incorporated
Month-Year
Feb, 2000
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9780805946949
ISBN-10: 0805946942
Language
English
No. of Pages
280
Format
Paperback
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