![]() ![]() She turns away from her own heart and focuses on power, allowing herself to be seduced by Marcellus, the next in line to rule Rome. Having been crowned queen along with her twin Alexandros, as the next king before being whisked out of Egypt, Cleopatra holds on to the hope that somehow the followers of Isis, her mother’s patron goddess, will help them escape back to Egypt, all the while convinced that Octavianus’s wife is trying to poison her family. ![]() Starting in Alexandria just as Octavianus is attacking the kingdom, Cleopatra Selene goes from a happy childhood at age seven to seeing her father kill himself, losing her mother, and being shipped off to Rome to live in the house of her enemy. Based on the lives of Cleopatra’s children, this book is narrated by the queen’s only daughter, Cleopatra Selene, whose father was Marcus Antonius and whose name means moon. ![]()
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