If that weren’t unpleasant enough, spending a winter in the ugly and ignored bastard of Persia’s four capitals was even worse.Susa was a bleak and vile smudge of gray, its people hunchbacked against the cold winds that sighed and howled and gnawed deep into their bones. It was a wonder that the c...
She had contemplated taking her life once before, but the heady promise of a life yet to live had tempted her away. Neferure was dead. Senenmut was dead. Now the Field of Reeds promised everything. The dagger bit into her fle...
The heaviness of the future and the weight of my past stooped my shoulders like an old woman’s, despite my soft cheeks and unlined skin. And then Jamuka had come. And I, being the fool I was, had allowed that hope to smolder to life again. &nb...
“He’s stealing from you.” I stood before Justinian, arms akimbo as I prepared to do battle against his finance minister. It was long past midnight, but we were both still working. An army of flickering oil lamps lit Justinian’s offices, so many that slaves had already had to refill them several t...