August’s bargain is from my own bookshelf!
The Pharaoh’s Daughter is on sale for $1.99 through August 27th on most eBook formats. (Please check prices before final purchase. Prices are subject to change without notice.)
The Pharaoh’s Daughter was the fifth book I wrote but the first in the Treasure of the Nile series. It tells the story of the Egyptian princess who raised Moses and how her name might have come to be recorded in Scripture (remember, it’s fiction!).
I had such a great time with all the Egyptian research and almost shouted for joy in the library when I discovered Moses’ Egyptian mother might have been related to King Tut!
Book Description:
Anippe has grown up in the shadows of Egypt’s good god Pharaoh, aware that Anubis, god of the afterlife, may take her–or her siblings–at any moment. She watched him snatch her mother and infant brother during childbirth, a moment which awakens in her a terrible dread of ever bearing a child. When she learns that she is to be become the bride of Sebak, a kind but quick-tempered Captain of Pharaoh Tut’s army, Anippe launches a series of deceptions with the help of the Hebrew midwives—women ordered by Tut to drown the sons of their own people in the Nile—in order to provide Sebak the heir he deserves and yet protect herself from the underworld gods.
When she finds a baby floating in a basket on the great river, Anippe believes Egypt’s gods have answered her pleas, entrenching her more deeply in deception and placing her and her son Mehy, whom handmaiden Miriam calls Moses, in mortal danger. As bloodshed and savage politics shift the balance of power in Egypt, the gods reveal their fickle natures and Anippe wonders if her son, a boy of Hebrew blood, could one day become king. Or does the god of her Hebrew servants, the one they call El Shaddai, have a different plan for them all?
