Nefertiti has forced Naomi to flee Amarna with Malachi and the three children. But even under the protection of Naomi’s family in Thebes, Nefertiti still hunts her and Tut. Nefertiti sends assassins to kill them, and while Naomi fights to protect the children, Malachi fights to keep her safe. With three children in tow, one of which isn’t her own, she is labeled the harlot outcast wife of the … pharaoh and is shunned. She isn’t safe among her own people, and flees from being stoned to death. Although her family protects her, she must find a way to survive. While Naomi struggles to keep herself and Tut alive, old adversaries return as Smenkhkare takes advantage of Akhenaten’s ailing health. Naomi must rely on Horemheb’s promise to protect Tut’s birthright, but her feelings for Malachi could cause more problems with Horemheb than she expects.
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Read this book just before reading Kiya. Interesting how 2 authors can present the same time period & people but have such different slants on them, their lives as well as their personalities. Great read of both books. Again showed just how strong a “mere” woman can be when it becomes a necessity.
Continuation of the first book in the Kiya Trilogy. Story is actually the part fictional and somewhat part historical about the life of Tutenkamen and the Hebrews. Exceptionally good read.
Book was written like a preteen romance novel. Quit reading at 12 percent complete.
Good its historical but not. If you do the research Tut was actually deformed because of incest. This woman was never known to exist of course. I don’t like it when they taint history with pure fiction.
Being a historical novel fan, I found Kiya a fascinating insight into the world of ancient Egypt as it might have been. The palace intrigues were so reminiscent of the political intrigues of today only confirms that as the human race, we are not so different from our ancestors…nor do we learn from our mistakes.
This was the beginning of a great series. Very realistic Egyptian settings.
Great story line
I like this time period in history. The story moved at a good pace and kept my attention. Didn’t want it to end.
Interesting picture of Hebrews living in Egypt, good story line.
I ended up buying the rest of the trilogy… very well done though not true historically was still great book
This is a good rough draft for a story, but it really needs polishing. The sentence structure was too simple, the story was choppy and did not flow at all.
Loved how the story flows
Great read. Historical fiction on the family of king tuts. Very enjoyable
CAN NOT WAIT FOR BOOK 3
I always learn something about history in this book. How the lives of past centuries have changed our own culture. About kings and pharaoh and the almighty queens who make it their goal to terrorize their slaves as if they are gods.
Typical historical romance with typical insufferable overly self indulgent emotional heroine.
It makes me want to read the next book in the series.
All three books in the Kiya series are well written, informative, and have great characters that seem very realistic. Enjoyed this series immensely.
Hard for me to get into to start but engaging after I found my reading momentum
Boring. Couldn’t finish it