The Conqueror’s Wife: A Novel of Alexander the Great
About this audiobook
We are the women who loved Alexander the Great. We were lovers and murderers, innocents and soldiers.And without us, Alexander would have been only a man.Instead he was a god.
330s, BCE, Greece: Alexander, a handsome young warrior of Macedon, begins his quest to conquer the ancient world. But he cannot ascend to power, and keep it, without the women who help to shape his destiny.
His spirited younger half-sister, Thessalonike, yearns to join her brother and see the world. Instead, it is Alexander’s boyhood companion who rides with him into war while Thessalonike remains behind. Far away, crafty princess Drypetis will not stand idly by as Alexander topples her father from Persia’s throne. And after Alexander conquers her tiny kingdom, Roxana, the beautiful and cunning daughter of a minor noble, wins Alexander’s heart ... and will commit any crime to secure her place at his side.
Within a few short years, Alexander controls an empire more vast than the civilized world has ever known. But his victories are tarnished by losses on the battlefield and treachery among his inner circle. And long after Alexander is gone, the women who are his champions, wives, and enemies will fight to claim his legacy ...
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About the author
Stephanie Marie Thornton is a high school history teacher and lives in Alaska with her husband and daughter.
Eleanor Caudill is an audiobook narrator who works out of her professional home studio in Atlanta, Georgia. She's a huge dog lover with a healthy respect for cats. If you catch her in her free time, she'll be eating pizza, watching Alien (or some other reverent horror movie), and crossing her fingers that A24 will start writing serial podcast stories for her to narrate.
Jay Ben Markson is a classically trained actor and an audiobook narrator who has recorded titles in a range of genres, from romance to military science fiction. In addition to narrating, he has appeared in the indie film The Audience, in more than fifteen plays by Shakespeare, and on Jeopardy!. He currently resides in New York.
Emily Bauer is an award-winning voice-over actress who has read for dozens of popular audiobooks for children and adults, including Margery Williams’s Velveteen Rabbit, Meg Cabot’s Insatiable, and Ann Aguirre’s Enclave. Her film credits include Mona Lisa Smile and Long Distance. She has done voice-overs for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Pokemon and has voiced scores of TV and radio commercials as well as cartoons, talking toys, and video games.
