The Giuliana Legacy

By Alexis Masters

This mystical journey of one woman's awakening to her soul's true purpose and passion will inspire and delight you. A dramatic journey into the age-old Mysteries of Love, The Giuliana . Legacy is an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558747850
• ISBN13: 9781558747852
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Hci
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Modern Day Priestess

The Giuliana Legacyby Alexis Masters; Health Communications, Inc, 2001.For anyone who wants to curl up at night with a good story, I highly recommend Alexis Master' novel The Giuliana Legacy. Giuliana is the Italian spelling of Juliana, the name of the heroine. Juliana Giardani's family has served The Goddess Aphrodite for centuries. But as the story begins, Julia herself couldn't be less interested in her family's spiritual heritage. A social worker at a homeless shelter and a midwife, she's always been put off by her father's willingness to call himself a Witch. So when he tells her it's time she took her rightful place in "the family business," she makes it clear that she'll give him a listen, but only out of love for dear Dad.Unfortunately, Dad never gets a chance to tell her anything of substance. He dies in a suspicious fire in his bookstore, a fire that Julia believes was not an accident. Now she's thrown back on her own resources to track down her legacy, based on the few paltry clues her father left behind. In a quick-paced story that moves from Berkeley, California, to Greece, to Paris, to Florence, Julia comes closer and closer to who she really is and to the Goddess she's meant to serve. But danger lurks near by in the form the malevolent former KGB member, Gregor Danilenko, who seeks a mysterious artifact in her family's possession-an artifact Julia knows nothing about. Luckily, she also meets a protector and helper; the handsome Andrei Anatolin, Danilenko's arch enemy. As Julia travels to Italy, learning more about her destiny, hearts and hands work secretly behind the scenes to keep her alive and safe from the evil that hunts her. Julia's last name, Giardani, is close to "giardini," the Italian word for gardeners. It's true that in ancient times, Aphrodite's shrines were often placed in gardens. However, one wonders if her last name might also be an insider's nod to modern-day Wiccans. The word "gardener" is very similar to Gardner, the last name of one of the most well-known figures of the 20th century Witchcraft movement: Gerald Gardner. But whether her name is meant to allude to Gerald Gardner or not, the novel is a suspenseful tale about love and devotion, both spiritual and physical. The story is delivered in tightly written prose, with not a word or scene wasted. I read it in two sittings, and several of my friends who have dedicated themselves to The Goddess have also read it and found it very enjoyable. Looking for a good love story with spiritual themes? Pick up this one.

Seeking Wonder? Needing Love? Embrace the Giuliana Legacy.

Great discovery, wonder and the inescapable embrace of the soul await you in within the pages of The Giuliana Legacy. Your journey as a reader begins in the vast plains of a daughter's grief and the corrupted loins of her pursuing villain. She must overcome fear, doubt, and dire challenges to love a special man, rescue another, and don the duties of her karma as a Giardani heiress.Masters' first published work is a victory deserving of your readership, it is truly a fine novel and a great read. Her literary ability conveys the innumerable counts of place, people, and the transpersonal with striking clarity and depth without cheap twists or pratfalls. The author's careful use of mysteries and spirituality as an element of her story, instead of the whole point, should prevent any feelings of brainwashing from all but the most brainwashed. The author has a refined and polished style of interweaving the plots and events and will leave you breathless and turning the pages forward in anticipation.To know Julia and of her adventures from the beginning of The Giuliana Legacy is indeed a gift from someone special. Masters' may not have invented a new story with her telling, but I feel that she has established her own important myth.-- Warning: This novel includes but is not limited to: an attractive young woman in her twenties, a bad man with many years of dirty deeds and espionage to his credit, a noble and heroic male love interest, an ageless woman of great wealth and power, one burning bookstore, two birthplaces of Aphrodite, three Italian witches and four amazing parts to read!

Across Time and Space

As a freelance editor, for personal and professional reasons I generally do not review books I have worked on, but there are a very few novels for which I make exceptions because for me they are exceptional. More than well crafted novels, they are work that is outside the box in some rare and moving way that broadens my mind and deepens my soul personally and professionally. Through Masters' vision and her profoundly Feminine heroine something in me has been enlivened or reawakened, something that spans time and space and human history, something as rich and immediate and delightful as this novel. Something of the nourishing perennial Feminine that answers a great and felt need of individual women and men, our culture, and our Earth.

The Power of Place

When you are longing to be somewhere else, somewhere numinous and alive, but airfare is out of reach, reach for this book. Travel with Julia, guided only by cryptic postcards left by her late father, to the coves and caves of Cypress, birthplace of Aphrodite, origin of the mysterious magical legacy that will eventually lead Julia not only to the hills of Tuscany but through time. Masters, whom I recently heard speak, traveled to over 50 ancient sanctuary sites on Aphrodite during her research for this book. When we read her sensuous descriptions, we are there, too. I am looking forward to seeing where Julia/Giuliana travel in volume 2!

A great read--and inspiring too!

I curled up one summer afternoon with The Guiliana Legacy, thinking to just dip in before doing chores. The next thing I knew it was midnight. Lost in the sensous Tuscan landscape and the X-Files-meets-the-goddess plot, I was both thrilled and moved by Masters' novel. Julia/Guiliana is a wonderful heroine, both mythic and believable, and her legacy is one we can all appreciate. A real find!