An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07
1864
The year is uncertain, but the world is ancient Babylon, where power flows like the Euphrates and betrayal carries the weight of death. When the king sentences his own wife and the noble Bartja to die for crimes they did not commit, the city erupts into chaos. A crowd gathers, drunk on indignation and the promise of blood, while in the shadows a Greek nobleman named Phanes moves through the palace gates carrying secrets that could save the innocent or destroy them utterly. At the center stands Nitetis, an Egyptian princess whose disgrace threatens to unravel the fragile peace between nations. With royal conspiracies, wrongful condemned prisoners, and a mystery that could free the condemned, Ebers weaves a tale where loyalty and betrayal intertwine like serpents in a basket. The author, a renowned Egyptologist, populates his ancient world with the kind of operatic passion and political machinations that made Victorian historical fiction irresistible.
