The Reluctant Goddess

Cleopatra is the most famous woman in history. This is the book that finally makes you understand why.



She was never supposed to be queen. The gods had other plans.

Everyone in the palace of Alexandria knows the order of things. Tryphaena is the beauty. Berenike is the viper. And Kleopatra, the fourteen-year-old with the green eyes and the scrolls, is the bookworm nobody worries about. That is, until a silver pendulum in a dead conqueror's tomb spins out of control, and a fist slams the lid ...