The Serpent Ring a story of Cleopatra
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In the twilight zone that exists between life and death, sometimes called the ‘Astral Plain’, time and space collide in a maelstrom of dreams and nightmares. Here all the secrets of men and gods are to be found, but beware; these secrets are not given without a price. In my dreams I see the remains of a small boat, under the silt at the bottom of a lake. What chieftain and his lady are here interred and what is their story? Come with me, then, to this place of dreams and nightmares. Come cautiously to a place called Alexandria where a beautiful lady once lived, her island palace in a bay by this ancient city. This lady’s name was Cleopatra, and her story was told by her enemies, wicked and jealous men who destroyed her, not by her friends who shared her tears of sorrow and laughter, those whom she truly loved.
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The Serpent Ring tells story of the last Cleopatra to rule Egypt through the eyes of Apollodorus who smuggled her passed her enemies in a bedroll, not a carpet, to her meeting with Caesar. Who was the love of her life who received the mythical ring and who murdered her?
About the Author
Chris Overton was born in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire during 1951 and was educated at a comprehensive school in Harlow, Essex. During this time he built his first boat, a twenty-one-foot-long canoe, in his back garden and sailed her on the nearby River Stort. He studied boat building at Colchester in Essex then Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding at Chatham Dockyard College (H.M.S Pembroke) also Poplar Merchant Navy College, East London. Recently he was an undergraduate mature student at Southampton Solent University where he obtained A Bachelor of Science Degree and The University of Greenwich as a postgraduate. He has worked for various yacht builders and ship owners. He is widowed with three grown up children, lives alone in Essex and runs his own business as a Naval Architect/Surveyor Boat Safety Inspector (inland waterways) and Yacht Delivery Skipper.