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Sahure
Book 2Sahure was his father's only son, and one accident could have ended Egypt's new royal house. Now that he is king, he means to be one of its great kings, remembered for his wisdom rather than the size…
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Children of the Sun God, Book 1: Userkaf A Novel of Ancient Egypt 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.
When the royal bloodline of Khufu falters, General Userkaf
rises to claim Egypt's vacant throne.
He has the backing of the army and the powerful priests of
Re. With a strategic marriage to the widowed queen Khentkaus, he forges a link
between the old dynasty and the new. He tells the wife he married for love that
the second marriage is for reasons of state.
She is afraid all the same. A son born to the new queen
could outrank their own son, Sahure, the heir. So she asks Userkaf for one
thing only: never to lie with Khentkaus. He cannot grant it, because the
marriage must be seen to be real.
Khentkaus is a king's daughter and a king's widow, and since
childhood she has believed that the gods meant her to rule Egypt as a king.
Within a month of the wedding she is with child, and she rejoices. It is not
because she wants to be a mother. It is because she now carries the weapon that
might yet bring her to ultimate power.
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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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