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Userkaf
Book 1When the last king of Khufu's line and his heir are both dead, the army and the priests of Re put General Userkaf on Egypt's empty throne. He names his family the Children of the Sun-God. To make that…
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Children of the Sun God, Book 2: Sahure by Max Overton
General Userkaf was never raised to be king. Then Egypt's
king and his heir are both dead, and he takes the empty throne. He declares
that his sons and grandsons will be known as the Children of the Sun-God. To
hold the throne, he marries the dead king's widow, Khentkaus. His first wife
fears that a son by Khentkaus could push their own son, Sahure, aside as heir.
Sahure already has a wife he married for love. Now he must marry his own sister
too, so that no other man can claim the throne through her. The wife he loves
has the same fear for her own sons. And Khentkaus has believed since childhood
that she will rule Egypt as a king. In a palace counting its sons, she is
carrying the new king's child.
Two minutes. That is all that kept Prince Netjerirenre from
being heir to the throne of Egypt, and he cannot stop thinking about it.
His father Sahure has just been crowned, and means to be one
of Egypt's great kings. At the end of his first year he takes his queens and
sons upriver on a royal progression. It is meant to let every city see its king
and know his heir: Netjerirenre's twin.
On the royal barge, a half-brother tells Netjerirenre he is
the younger one who will never amount to much, and probably not even the king's
son. Fists fly until both boys go over the side and someone yells crocodiles.
The twin's mother calls the other queen a liar in front of everyone. The king
tells his sons that family is the most precious thing they have.
At Abu, his eldest half-brother Khakhare offers him
friendship just when he needs it most. They are alone on top of one of the
great grey boulders that give Abu its name. Khakhare can never be king himself,
he says, but Netjerirenre could be. If the throne is ever within his reach,
Khakhare will support him.
Netjerirenre smiles and accepts, without fully understanding
what he has just been offered.
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Neferirkare
Book 3Prince Ranefer's twin was born only a few minutes after him, and has never hidden his belief that the throne is just as much his. So when their father, the king of Egypt, dies, Ranefer will not wait e…
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Khentkaus
Book 4As soon as she could talk, Khentkaus told everyone she would be king of Egypt, and everyone laughed. A woman could not be a king, they told her. Now she is old, and she has found another way. King Nef…
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Nyuserre
Book 5Queen Reptynub means to destroy a boy of thirteen. He is Prince Kaiu, son of the king's murdered brother. King Nyuserre has promised him the throne of Egypt, the throne she wants for her own son, Ises…
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Menkauhor
Book 6Eleven-year-old Prince Raemka is heir to the throne of Egypt, and he has never gone anywhere without guards at his back. The farthest he has travelled is the Temple of Ptah, and the most excitement he…
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Djedkare
Book 7Djedkare Isesi is king of Egypt because two young boys are dead. They were the sons of his cousin, the old king, and both died on the same day, before their father. Now the new king has a hard questio…
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Unas
Book 8Unas becomes king of Egypt standing over his father's body, and the gods have left him no son to follow him. One of his sons was murdered by Unas's own uncle. Unas has sworn to his father to keep that…
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