Book Review Written by Susan McDuffiePublished by the Historical Novel Society Italy, 60 BCE: A baby girl is left exposed to the elements after her mother dies giving the child life. The infant is found and adopted by a loving couple from Pompeii, who name their new...
Spring 2021 Edition Priestess of Pompeii: The Initiate's Journey Book 1 was featured of Primo Magazine. What is it like to go back in time and observe the daily lives and customs of antiquity? Not much different than what one will experience when reading Sandra C. Hurt’s phenomenal...
CURRENT ISSUE | Vol 32 No 3 Spring 2021 Edition "In this historical novel ,three decades in the making, oracle and miracle connect in a crucible of feminine discovery and self-empowerment. Rufilla Istacidii is born to servants in Pompeii in the first century, BCE. The birth was...
NIAF News: eNotizie Auguri Sandra Hurt’s Priestess of PompeiiCongratulations to NIAF Member Sandra Hurt for her new book, Priestess of Pompeii, an epic yet intimate portrayal of Rufilla Istacidia’s world in ancient Pompeii and Greece. Mythology and history intertwine, like the inner and outer worlds of life....
Priestess of Pompeii Article written by Nancy Niblack Baxter, published on Vincennes Sun Commercial Two southern Indiana libraries will host an innovative Zoom author program during November’s National Novel Writing Month. Author Sandra Hurt of Indianapolis will tell the story of how almost 30 years of researching...
Article written by Rita Kohn, published on Nuvo. Priestess of Pompeii: The Initiate’s Journey Book I, Sandra Hurt’s debut novel, easily could have taken the Oedipus route forward from infant abandonment to tragedy. Hurt, however, moves the story of the newborn Rufilla along a complexity of...