When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.

Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.

The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity. By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.