Introducing The Devine Sagas

 

The Devine Sagas—five engrossing family sagas, three of them being published for the first time in the United States, are being digitally published this calendar year on Amazon Kindle.

Kronos, the first volume of the Devine Sagas, is set in Greece.  It was published on May 8—International

Women’s Day—and is available on Amazon Kindle.  This is its American debut publication, although it has been

available in London, published by Andre Deutsch, since 1991.

The Devine Sagas are written by the bestselling author Laurie Devine, an American from Pittsburgh, who

made her name as an international writer who excels at can’t-put-down family sagas featuring strong and

memorable women of the developing world.

Devine lived in the Middle East and leading European cities for nearly twenty years, establishing a

solid reputation as an author with intimate knowledge of the cultures she writes about.  Her base was London,

as she lived in Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Cyprus.  She now lives in Mexico.

Kronos is a modern-day Greek tragedy centered on a wily and beautiful Greek woman who is loved by

two brothers – one a leftist leader and the other a rightwing colonel  – whose intertwined lives are the fraught

saga of contemporary Greek culture. The rugged landscape of Greece provides the exotic background for a

story of primitive passions harkening back to ancient times. It was published May 8, 2024 on Amazon Kindle.

Nile unforgettably captures the human underpinnings of the Middle East today.  It is a sweeping

multi-generational saga of star-crossed lovers who find, lose and ultimately redeem each other,

set against the war-torn canvas of contemporary Egyptian and Israeli history.  An international

best-seller and Literary Guild selection, it will be published May 22, 2024 on Amazon Kindle

Saudi answers a confounding question: Whatever could make a contemporary young American

woman don a mask and veil and marry a man who already has a wife and child back in Saudi Arabia?

This multi-generational story of passion, enlightenment, and delusion sweeps from the fabled

Arabian peninsula back home to New England and along the way uncovers the netherworld

of the Middle East’s closed and superrich society. An international best-seller, it will be

published July 21, 2024, on Amazon Kindle.

Crescent is a mesmerizing Lebanese tale of the lives, triumphs, and sorrows of four young

women who meet in the 1950s at university in Beirut, which was then the “Paris of the Middle East.”

It goes behind contemporary headlines to share their hopes, fears, and dreams: of an upper-class

Palestinian, a Lebanese Christian, a poor Shia Muslim, and an American Jew with deep roots in

this culture. Their stories – riven by violence and transcended by enduring loves – unlock the

mysteries of one of the world’s most troubled and fascinating regions. It will be published

October 9, 2024, on Amazon Kindle.

Cypress is the gripping and powerful saga of two Cypriot families – one Greek, the other Turkish –

divided by fierce national and religious loyalties, and yet irrevocably drawn toward together by the

ties of blood. Reconciliation is elusive, but both sides move slowly but surely toward peace. It will be

published on December 4, 2024, on Amazon Kindle.

These editions include updated material, including suggested Book Club presentations.

Readers may notice that second-hand copies of earlier editions of these novels may

be available from time to time on used book sites.  Their sales have no connection with the author.

--Laurie Devine, Devine Saga Author   

Kronos is now available on Amazon KDP