Babylonia (Deluxe Edition)

From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history,painting the brutal and captivating empire of gods and menand the one queen destined to rule them all. A common woman. The governor she married. The king who loved them both. Babylonia across the centuries has become the embodiment of lustexcessand dissolute power that ruled Ancient Assyria. In this world you had to kill to be king. Orin the case of Semiramisan orphan raised on the outskirts of an empire: Queen. Nothing about Semiramis’s upbringing could have foretold her legacy. But when she meets a young representative of the new Assyrian kinga prophecy unfolds before herone that puts her in the center of a brutal world and in the hearts of two men – one who happens to be king. Now a risen lady in a court of vipersSemiramis becomes caught in the politics and viciousness of ancient Assyria. Instead of bartering with fateSemiramis trains in war and diplomacy. And with each moveshe rises in rankembroiled in a game of powerdesireloveand betrayaluntil she can ascend to the only position that will ever keep her safe. In her second novelCostanza Casati brilliantly weaves myth and ancient history together to give Semiramisthe only female ruler of the Assyrian Empirea voicecharting her captivating ascent to a throne no one promised her.