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The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty’s royal family—all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The girl’s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A relic of a previous reign, Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the Pharaoh’s aunt, then brought to the Temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen.

Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her family’s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Destined to be the most powerful Pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history.

Sweeping in scope and meticulous in detail, The Heretic Queen is a novel of passion and power, heartbreak and redemption.]]> 269069 3.95 1854 612 2008 5 0 false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 10:14:44 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 05:25:12 -0800 2009
Thanks to an ill-spent youth parked in front of Bob Brier documentaries on the Discovery Channel, I have developed a deep fascination and love of Ancient Egypt. While I have read a stack of nonfiction on everything from The Murder of Tutankhamen to Egyptian Mummies: Un...more...]]>