A thrilling, chilling reimagining of the story of the most famous woman in history. Once there was a queen of Egypt… a queen who became through magic something else… The year is 30 BC. Octavian Caesar and his massed legions are poised to enter Alexandria. A messenger informs Egypt’s queen, Cleopatra, that her beloved Mark Antony has died by his own hand. Desperate to save her kingdom, resurrect her husband and protect all she holds dear, Cleopatra turns to the gods for help. Ignoring the warnings of those around her, she summons Sekhmet, goddess of death and destruction, and strikes a mortal bargain. And not even the wisest of Egypt’s scholars could have predicted what would follow… For, in return for Antony’s soul, Sekhmet demands something in return: Cleopatra herself. And so Egypt’s queen is possessed. She becomes an immortal, shape-shifting, not-quite-human manifestation of a deity who seeks to destroy the world. Fighting to preserve something of her humanity, Cleopatra pursues Octavian back to Rome: she desires revenge, she yearns for her children…and she craves human blood. It is a journey that will take her from the tombs of the Pharaohs to the great amphitheatres of imperial Rome and on, to Hell itself where, it seems, the fate of the world will finally be decided. Blending authentic historical fiction and the darkest of fantasy, Queen of Kings is a spectacular and spellbinding feat of the imagination that fans of Neil Gaiman, Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, Patricia Briggs, Philippa Gregory, and Ridley Scott's Gladiator won’t want to miss.
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Maria Dahvana Headley
Maria Dahvana Headley é a autora da fantasia histórica A Rainha dos Reis, o primeiro volume de uma trilogia. Anteriormente, ela escreveu The Year of Yes: A Memoir, que foi traduzido para nove línguas, e escolhida para televisão e cinema, respectivamente, pela 20th Century Fox e pela Paramount Pictures. Ela já apareceu como autora de destaque e palestrante em eventos, incluindo o Festival do Livro do Texas e o Wordstock, e foi entrevistada em programas de televisão nacionais e internacionais, além de programas de rádio, incluindo o The Today Show, Countdown com Keith Olbermann, e muitos mais. Sua escrita tem aparecido em uma série de antologias literárias, como o The New York Times, Elle, The Washington Post, e muito mais. Como dramaturga, é a criadora do Projeto The Upstart Crow, uma organização que irá reunir 37 dramaturgas que irão adaptar todas as peças de Shakespeare para versões contemporâneas. Ela vive atualmente no Brooklyn, Nova York.
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