Cleopatra

Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife.<BR><BR>“Enchanting, smart, and subversive—this is El-Arifi’s masterpiece.”—R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis <BR><BR>This stunning edition includes designed endpapers and a custom case stamp.<BR><BR>YOU KNOW MY NAME, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.<BR><BR>Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.<BR><BR>Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves.<BR><BR>Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children.<BR><BR>How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, and divinely blessed to rule.<BR><BR>Death will silence me no longer. <BR><BR>This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.