![]() Selene desperately misses Egypt and her mother, and she cannot even worship Isis because her religion has been banned by Octavian. In a dramatic scene, Octavian (who will later become Augustus Caesar) spares the children and places them under the control of his sister Octavia, where they will be raised alongside the various children of his household. Selene and her brothers Helios and Philadelphus travel to Rome as captives and must endure a humiliating march through the city, not knowing what will happen to them. Mark Antony has died and Cleopatra will kill herself rather than submit to Roman captivity. The story opens in the aftermath of Cleopatra and Mark Antony’s defeat by Rome. Cleopatra Selene is an intelligent narrator and watching her grow up and reinvent herself following the death of her parents and her own captivity in Rome makes for compelling reading. ![]() Lily of the Nile originally caught my eye because of its Egyptian heroine and Roman setting, but the author’s vision of a very faraway time and place kept me reading. I love lots of variety not only in romance, but in historical fiction in general. ![]()
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