The Bride of the Nile — Volume 12
Set in ancient Egypt during the reign of the radical pharaoh Akhenaten, this sweeping historical novel traces the collision between old gods and new faith. The pharaoh has abandoned Egypt's traditional religion to worship the Aten, the sun disk, upending millennia of tradition and plunging the kingdom into religious and political turmoil. At the center of this upheaval stands Paaker, a man drawn into the dangerous intrigue of the royal court, where he finds himself caught between loyalty and desire, between the dying world of the old priests and the alien vision of the heretic king. He falls hopelessly in love with Nofretete, a servant of the beautiful Nefertiti, but their love is forbidden by the rigid class distinctions that even revolution cannot erase. As court factions scheme and the old religious order fights back, every choice carries the weight of life and death. Ebers, a pioneering Egyptologist, infuses every page with authentic detail of daily life in the ancient world, from the gleaming temples to the shadowed corridors of power where empires rise and fall on the decisions of a few.
