Queen of kings: a novel of cleopatra, the vampire

✍ Scribed by Dahvana Headley, Maria

• Publisher: Random House;New American Library
• Year: 2011;2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 239 KB
• Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0525952179

✦ Synopsis

Theres more than one path to immortality

QUEEN OF KINGS
Maria Dahvana Headley

A thrilling, chilling reimagining of the story of the most famous woman in history.

Once there was a queen of Egypta 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 Egypts 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 Egypts scholars could have predicted what would follow

For, in return for Antonys soul, Sekhmet demands something in return: Cleopatra herself. And so Egypts 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 childrenand 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 wont want to miss.

Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780525952176