Ma’at Series

After her mother, the Queen of Egypt, is murdered, Ankhesenamun finds herself alone. Her husband, Tutankhamun, is disabled and very young so she must focus all of her statecraft on securing his claim to the throne. While powerful officials attempt to exert their influence on her. With guile and courage, she thwarts them and assumes control herself. Rather than alienating Tutankhamun, as she had expected, her actions win his admiration and support.

As she and her teenaged husband gain in maturity and grow in their role as a ruling couple, they must constantly negotiate a balance between securing the throne and growing closer together as husband and wife. At the same time, Egypt’s northern provinces waver between loyalty to these young regents and the looming threat of the powerful Hittite empire. The Egyptian army must deter the threat and Tutankhamun longs to perform his duty to fight alongside the army as is customary, but Ankhesenamun begs him to stay home because his disability would mean certain death in battle. Reluctantly, he respects her request. The Egyptians go on to win the battle, but the enemy is victorious in conquering their allies and it does not seem long until Egypt will be forced to fight them alone.

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**Finalist – 2024 Chaucer Award for Early Historical Fiction**

The recently murdered Queen Nefertiti of Egypt stands before the gods in the Underworld. To be granted eternal life, she must convince them her life has been worthy. Should she fail, she will be consigned to oblivion.

To prove her worthiness, she undertakes a review of her life – from the moment when, as a child, the gods assigned her the task of maintaining cosmic balance, to her turbulent forced marriage to Akhenaten, the one Pharaoh in Egypt’s long history who set out to tear that balance apart.

Her marriage becomes steadily more difficult as Akhenaten’s obsession to legitimize the worship of only one god throws society into chaos. Nefertiti assumes more and more of his duties, at a time when simply having a woman in charge is itself viewed as an upset of the cosmic balance. But Nefertiti’s greatest challenge arises as she fails to produce a male heir to preserve the dynasty. As Akhenaten turns in desperation towards Nefertiti’s beautiful young daughters to birth him a son, Nefertiti must balance the future of Egypt and the weight of her royal responsibilities against her love for her daughters.

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