Lily of the Nile by Stephanie Dray

At last, it's out!!! Stephanie Dray has written a book that I've been looking forward to getting my hands on ever since I heard about it.  If you, like me, enjoy history brought to life in an easy to read format, get this book.  I have already downloaded it for my nook and I have to be firm with myself to stop reading now. I have to work at 6:30am tomorrow and I have to get to bed!

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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