The Tenth Muse: A Modern Myth

Lily G. Stephen. Blooming Rose Press, $14.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-9712659-0-5

Two beautiful young girls, Opal Courtright and Sapphire Deland, grow up on Earth and Zamora, respectively, unaware of each other's existence or of their cosmic link, in Lily G. Stephen's The Tenth Muse, first in the Third Verse Trilogy. From Lamartine, a planet in a higher dimension, a kindly, beneficent stranger named Branicor has high hopes for the shared fate of the two girls.

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