Set primarily in the Peru of 1937, Seventh Daughter by Ronnie Seagren is a character-driven Indiana Jones-style adventure fantasy. Exploring such conflicts as the struggle between duty and choice and between good and evil, it deals with the recognition that there will always be evil in the world and always, there will always be choices to make, joy and loss, triumph and sorrow.

The main theme of Seventh Daughter explores the risk involved in letting go of what we value most to attain a higher goal, just as a trapeze artist must let go of his bar to reach his partner. Security, personal freedom, hatred, even life itself—each of the main characters is challenged to risk such a choice.

Gil Orlov is born in the shadow of a solar eclipse, the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter. Her prime purpose in life, the goal of her clan, is defeating her great-grandmother’s Vision of the world in flames, reduced to a lifeless cinder. But the power she should have is muted or lacking. To further complicate things, an identical twin is born just as totality ends. Her aunts decide the second infant must be disposed of rather than risk contaminating their mission.

Gil and her sisters decide to travel to Peru to the hidden ruins of a hidden shrine called Killichaka — “Bridge to the Moon.” There, in the shadow of the solar eclipse of 1937, Gil hopes to regain her power. But her twin sister, Miriam, has other plans, and so does an evil entity that calls itself Supay. In Peru, that is the name of the devil. Miriam will do anything to usurp Gil’s legacy, and Supay is determined to defeat and corrupt Gil and ensnare her in its own dark designs.

Following Gil is her economics professor, Galen Williams, whom she had asked to be her guardian on this hazardous trek. He has demons of his own to battle — dark memories of his brother’s death and a broken dream, that both victims of the Great Depression. He is soon caught up in the treachery and peril of the journey to witness the seeming mystical power found in the shadow of the moon.

In addition to writing, Colorado native Ronnie Seagren is an avid nature photographer. She has a degree in geology and likes to chase after eclipses.

Seventh Daughter is available wherever great books are sold, and Flying Pen Press especially recommends these fine retail stores:

The Tattered Cover, Denver, Colorado (http://www.tatteredcover.com/)
Borderlands Books, San Francisco, California (http://www.borderlands-books.com/)
Who Else! Books, Denver, Colorado (http://home.att.net/~who_else/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html)

Seventh Daughter.
By Ronnie Seagren.
Published by Flying Pen Press LLC, April 2008, under the imprint Flying Pen Press Fiction.
304 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-9795889-7-6. Trade paperback. Cover Price: $16.95.
5.5" x 8.5" x 0.637", 0.858lb.
Flying Pen Press catalog number FIC-F-01001.