After eight years, countless revisions, near-misses, emotional lows and dizzying excitement, my debut novel is finally available wherever books are sold! I’d greatly appreciate any help in spreading the word!
Based on the true life story of Cleopatra’s daughter.
With her parents dead, the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony is left at the mercy of her Roman captors. Heir to one empire and prisoner of another, it falls to Princess Selene to save her brothers and reclaim what is rightfully hers…
In the aftermath of Alexandria’s tragic fall, Princess Selene is taken from Egypt, the only home she’s ever known. Along with her two surviving brothers, she’s put on display as a war trophy in Rome. Selene’s captors mock her royalty and drag her through the streets in chains, but on the brink of death, the children are spared as a favor to the emperor’s sister, who takes them to live as hostages in the so-called lamentable embassy of royal orphans…
Now trapped in a Roman court of intrigue that reviles her heritage and suspects her faith, Selene can’t hide the hieroglyphics that carve themselves into her flesh. Nor can she stop the emperor from using her for his own political ends. But faced with a new and ruthless Caesar who is obsessed with having a Cleopatra of his very own, Selene is determined honor her mother’s lost legacy. The magic of Egypt and Isis remain within her. But can she succeed where her mother failed? And what will it cost her in a political game where the only rule is win or die?
Berkley Trade January 2011 (Trade Paperback, 430 pages)
# ISBN-10: 0425238555
# ISBN-13: 978-0425238554
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Congrats on the release.
And good luck to Selene. May she find favour with the readers.
Thanks so much! I don’t know about me, but Selene deserves the success 😉
I got the book and finished it in the same day! It was great. I can’t wait for the sequel!
You’re the best, Emily! I’m so glad that you liked it.
I devoured this book like a hippo does a small fishing craft. I even skipped out on FiranMUX for the evening to read it straight through. This was every bit as imbued with tragedy and mysticism, and as well-researched as I hoped it would be. Enjoy your writing style so much, Steph. “Lord of Two Lands” by Judith Tarr now has a friend on the bookshelf.
I’m so honored! And wow, Judith Tarr is good company 😉