An Egyptian Princess — Volume 06
Victorian historical fiction at its most luxuriant, this novel transports readers to the glittering, treacherous courts of ancient Persia where a beautiful Egyptian princess becomes the undoing of a powerful king. When Nitetis, daughter of Pharaoh Apries, is given in marriage to Cambyses II of Persia, she carries with her the weight of her nation's defeat and the secret shame of her house. The Persian court receives her with magnificent hospitality, but beneath the banquet halls and flowing robes lies a viper's nest of jealousy and ambition. Cambyses loves his Egyptian bride, yet his passion is poisoned by whispered rumors and the machinations of the treacherous eunuch Boges, who weaves lies with the patience of a spider. When accusations target Nitetis and Bartja, the king's brother, the banquet hall transforms from a scene of celebration to a theater of ruin. What follows is a devastating portrait of a man whose love curdles into obsession, whose tenderness turns to tyranny, and whose信任 dissolves entirely. Ebers, writing with the authority of a trained Egyptologist, renders the ancient world with period-perfect detail while plumbing the eternal darkness of the human heart.
