Nibiru's Child

Can Samantha Survive?
Samantha Fitzhugh leads a quiet, wallflower life in the genius class
of her high school. She never knew her father, and her mother is off in
Antarctica, absorbed in a career as an archaeologist.
A series of freakish events in the school has her on the verge of being
expelled. Out of the blue, the hottest boy in the class invites her into his
family to stay until her mom returns.
There she finds warm and loving parents, even if they are a bit strange-
a professor father with profound arcane knowledge and a psychic mother
who reads minds and casts spells. They believe that the vestiges of some
inherited power are starting to emerge from her. They caution her that
high school is a hormonal time. If she wishes to go down this road, she
must retain her chastity.
Meanwhile, a mad artist is spontaneously producing paintings of
Samantha that have become a focus of worship for a gang of crazed,
meth-dealing bikers. They believe she is the descendant of Inanna, an
ancient Sumerian goddess from the lost planet Nibiru.
The gang leader is a former college professor with a murderous thirst for
vengeance against those who drove him out of the profession. He believes
in Samantha's magical descent and her link to a planet with a 3,600-year
orbit that will bring it smashing through the Earth's solar system.
He wants her and intends to possess her, no matter who he has to kill.

ALLEGRA DRAKOS was born to a London-and-Athens based Greek family of wine and olive merchants. She was educated in the US and at St. Catherine's British Embassy School in Athens, Greece. Defying a Greek girl's imperative to marry at 18 and became a baby machine, she studied archaeology at Worcester College, Oxford, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Her research among dusty ruins has convinced her the once-great empires of Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu were destroyed by a cosmic impact in 10,200 BC with earth crust displacement, volcanic eruptions in the Ring of Fire, and the near extinction of all life. Allegra spends much of the year on the island of Hydra in the Saronic Gulf. She believes in the Oxford comma, documents regional differences in Greek cuisine, raises Kotsifali grapes, and lives very much for each day. Because the next great cataclysm approaches from beyond Sirius, the Dog Star.