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Laurentia MClain

Book Doctor

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Two beautiful cousins want the same man. One of them will stop at nothing to get what she wants, including murder...

Free Short Novella

Golden-skinned Meïamoun has a peerless male beauty, the courage of a lion, and one obsession: his queen. Unfortunately, she doesn't know he exists. But he will risk anything, including his life, to catch her eye. 

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Queen Cleopatra, the most powerful woman in the world, craves true love more than all her riches. What is she willing to sacrifice to have it?

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One of Cleopatra's Nights is a short novella written by French author Theophile Gautier in 1838 and thoroughly revised and edited by me for a modern audience. Archaic language has been updated, but the wonderful descriptions of ancient Egypt and love story shine brightly. 

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About

About Laurentia McClain

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Author Stephen King wrote, "Sooner or later, everything old is new again." 

That's my mission. I fix old, archaic books with incredible plots, making them appealing to you, the modern reader. In other words, I'm a book doctor. 

The books I fix are on life support. The prose is nearly impossible to wade through, and attitudes are insensitive or blatantly racist or misogynistic. In short, they are a product of their time. 

However, far from being worthless, they're a fascinating window into the past. Instead of reading a modern author's ideas about the past, you're reading a writer who was living it. And that's priceless. It's a crime for these books to die in the dark, abandoned. 

I hope you enjoy my retellings of these forgotten but superb authors and their stories. Enjoy.  
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