The heretic queen - Michelle Moran

In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family's past and remake
history.

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.