Michelle Moran Giveaway - Cleopatra's Daughter and the Heretic Queen

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Thanks to Michelle Moran I have a lovely treat for you all today. I am hosting a giveaway of her new book Cleopatra's Daughter which comes out on September 15th, and I also got a paperback of The Heretic Queen to give away to a lucky winner.

I can't wait to read this book myself, since it has all the ingredients that I like.

You can enter for both books but you can only win one. Prize 1 is Cleopatra's Daughter and prize 2 is The Heretic Queen.

Entering is simple and the contest, thanks to the wonderful Ms Moran, is open WORLDWIDE.

1. Leave a comment, and you're entered for both.

2. If I can't reach you through blogger or wordpress or so on, then please leave your email.

3. If you do have a preference then do tell me so I can enter you only for one of the books.

4. Open to all

4. Ends September 10th.

Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran

The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antony’s vengeful rival, Octavian, sweep into Egypt. Their three orphaned children are taken in chains to Rome, but only two—the ten-year-old twins Selene and Alexander—survive the journey. Delivered to the household of Octavian’s sister, the siblings cling to each other and to the hope that they will return one day to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt. As they come of age, they are buffeted by the personal ambitions of Octavian’s family and court, by the ever-present threat of slave rebellion, and by the longings and desires deep within their own hearts.

In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family’s past, and remake history.

The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the 18th dynasty’s royal family—all with the exception of Nefertari, 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 names. A relic of a previous reign, Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. But all of this changes when she is taken under the wing of pharaoh’s aunt, and brought to the Temple of Hathor where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen.

Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the crown prince, and despite her family’s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Destined to be the most powerful pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history.