Amazon.com: 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
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I found this book difficult - if not, at times, outright impossible - to put down once I'd started it. Michelle Moran did a wonderful job of evoking Nefertiti, fleshing her out from a pretty bust in Berlin to a proud woman who was a talented seductress and schemer, and above all else ambitious.
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