Elizabeth Cunningham

The Maeve Chronicles

1 - The Passion of Mary Magdalen (Apr-2006)
2 - Magdalen Rising (Apr-2007)
3 - Bright Dark Madonna (Apr-2009)
4 - Red-Robed Priestess (Nov-2011)

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  The Return of the Goddess
  

  • Oct-1992
  • / General Fiction
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  The Goddess is returning!

  She takes shape in the hands of an Episcopal priest's shy, retiring wife. She invades the dreams of a grande dame who thinks women priests are a scandal. She lures a poker-playing ex-convict onto unfamiliar terrain...

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  The Wild Mother
  

  • May-1993
  • / Suspense
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  Enter the world of The Wild Mother--modern fairytale, bold biblical midrash, filled with the psychological depth and imaginative originality for which the author of The Maeve Chronicles is known. This 25th anniversary edition of Elizabeth Cunningh...

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  How to Spin Gold
  

  • Aug-2003
  • / Fantasy
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  With the magical realism of her three critically acclaimed novels (The Return of the Goddess, The Wild Mother, and Daughter of the Shining Isles), Elizabeth Cunningham again brings great archetypes into our lives with historical poignancy and a moder...

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  The Passion of Mary Magdalen
  

  • Apr-2006
  • / General Fiction
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  The Maeve Chronicles - 1
  

  “Cunningham weaves Hebrew scripture, Celtic and Egyptian mythology, and early Christian legend into a nearly seamless whole, creating an unforgettable fifth gospel story in which the women most involved in Jesus’s ministry are given far more repr...

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  Magdalen Rising
  

  • Apr-2007
  • / Fantasy
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  The Maeve Chronicles - 2
  

  "Smart and earthy . . . richly imaginative . . . the epitome of the storyteller's art." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, named one of "The Year's Best Books""This amazing book could well become a classic of women's literature." -- Booklist, named one of t...

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  Bright Dark Madonna
  

  • Apr-2009
  • / Fantasy
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  The Maeve Chronicles - 3
  

  “The best one yet!” -- Catherine MacCoun, author of On Becoming an Alchemist"As usual, Cunningham provides plenty of juicy controversy embodied by vivid characters and expressed in vigorous action, all in crisply drawn biblical settings." -- Book...

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  Red-Robed Priestess
  

  • Nov-2011
  • / Fantasy
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  The Maeve Chronicles - 4
  

  After a life of passion and adventure that has brought her through slavery to the Resurrection garden, through the controversies of the Early Church to a hermit cave in southern gaul, Maeve, the Celtic Mary Magdalen, returns to the Holy Isles accompa...

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  Murder at the Rummage Sale
  

  • Jun-2016
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Best known for The Maeve Chronicles, a series of award-winning novels, featuring a feisty Celtic Magdalen, Elizabeth Cunningham turns her formidable imagination to another historical setting and a time-honored form, the mystery. Descended from gen...

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  Faith
  

  • Feb-2017
  • / General Fiction
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  All the Perils of This Night
  

  • Aug-2020
  • / General Fiction
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  When young Katherine vanishes without a trace while visiting relatives in London, her godmother's strange, often terrifying dreams may be the only clues that can save her. Katherine has been abducted and forced into sexual slavery in a highly exclusi...

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  Magdalen Rising: The Beginning
  

  • / Science Fiction
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  Young Magdalen and Jesus, brimming with youthful charm and arrogance, find each other and fall in love, forging a bond that is stronger than death. Their pleasure is overshadowed by a brilliant but unbalanced druid who knows a perilous secret abou...

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