Queen Móo’s Talisman

About this book

Queen Móo receives a talisman and a prophecy. When she chooses Coh over his jealous brother Aac, a family rivalry grows into murder, exile and the ruin of an ancient kingdom.

Alice Dixon Le Plongeon tells the tragedy in verse, weaving reincarnation and a vanished Maya civilisation into its drama. Móo places the talisman beside her dead husband, hoping their destinies remain joined beyond the grave. The book's imagined history reflects the author's speculative theories about the ancient world, giving those theories the shape of a deeply personal loss.