SynopsisOver 10 million copies sold in 20 languages As a seasoned reader of the Ringing Cedars Series, you'll agree that "the ancients" knew a thing or two. You may be surprised to learn that they also knew the secret to everlasting love. Rites of Love compares today's attitudes toward sex, childbirth, family and education with those of our forebears. The depth of their understanding may cause you to wonder how we lost this extraordinary knowledge. Anastasia assures us that it can be regained. Through the fascinating life-story of one family, Megré portrays the radiant world of the ancient Russian Vedic civilisation, documents the drama of its destruction and reveals its rebirth - millennia later - in our present time. In powerful poetic prose, Megré describes a way of life that was grounded in love and non-violence, and then shows the practicability of this same approach today. Rites of Love reminds us of much we have forgotten - it really is like reading one's own life story and, in the process, awakening from a long sleep. The Ringing Cedars Series the more you read them, the better you feel Ringing Cedars Press Book jacket., "Rites of Love" is Book 8 Part 2 of The Ringing Cedars Book Series. This series of nine books tells the story of a remarkable woman named Anastasia, discovered in 1995 by a Siberian trader, Vladimir Megré, while he was plying the waters of the remote Ob River. Anastasia was born in the forest in 1969 to parents who died tragically when she was just a baby. Living for the most part without warm clothes, food cultivation or man-made shelter, she has survived on fruit, nuts, berries and mushrooms, brought to her by "wild" animals with which she lives in peaceful harmony. Megré initially spent three days with Anastasia, during which time she displayed such astounding knowledge, power and wisdom that he abandoned his business and, at her request, began writing this series. She told him she would encode the books with an energy that would cause them to sell in the millions. Despite his lack of writing experience, this is exactly what happened. It is Anastasia's ability to strike a chord in the heart of the reader that makes these books so very unusual. The purity and power of her words is provoking an outpouring of joy and hope in people from all walks of life. The series has sold over 11 million copies and has been translated into 20 different languages. This is the authorized English Edition.