What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile #1)

by Isabel Ibañez

He breathed competency in every word he spoke.

“Cleopatra commanded a fleet, battled insurrections, controlled Egypt’s vast wealth, and survived famines. All that and history likes to portray her as a mere slip of a woman, a saucy vixen luring men to their downfalls. It’s a shame Romans never bothered to understand her. They were guilty of so much worse. Waging war, plundering what they found, and ruling without compromise.”

But as much as there was beauty, there was also ruin, too.

A constant reminder that for more than a millennia, treasure hunters from within and without stole from sites up and down Egypt.

I had many memories I wanted to live again, too. Every crumb felt like a feast to me.

She was alluring and earthy, a woman who knew how to provoke, a woman who knew how to lead.

He tore his gaze away from Marcus Antonius. It occurred to me then how much Whit might identify with this soldier who had lived and fought and loved two thousand years earlier. A man who had turned against the land of his birth. Erased from his country’s memory and history, his accomplishments willfully forgotten.