Empire of Dust
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After the triumph of winning his first battle, Prince Alexander has little time to relish his success. He can no longer trust his best friend Hephaestion, and even Queen Olympias, his own mother, is suspected of the darkest of deeds. Then Alexander discovers that a traitor lurks within his own court—someone who holds the prince's confidence.
Having fallen out of favor with Alexander, Hephaestion travels with Katerina to Egypt to secure a military alliance—all the while concealing a devastating prophecy he can share with no one—not even Katerina, the woman he is falling in love with.
Losing his first love Katerina only fuels Jacob's choice to join forces against Prince Alexander. And with the prince's sister Cynane as his prisoner, he believes he holds the key to Macedon's destruction.
Believed dead or missing, Persian Princess Zofia has been freed from duty to marry Prince Alexander, only to find herself abducted by a mysterious, handsome captor with secrets darker than her own.
Praise for New York Times–bestselling author Eleanor Herman's Blood of Gods and Royals series:
"A mingling of history, intrigue, romance, murder, and magic." —Cinda Williams Chima, New York Times–bestselling author of The Seven Realms series
"History buffs and fantasy fans won't want to miss out on this mind-blowing new series that's bound to be a huge hit." — San Francisco Book Review
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About the author
Eleanor Herman is the New York Times–bestselling author of Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen, non-fiction works on the love lives of European royals through the centuries. She also wrote Mistress of the Vatican, the biography of a woman who ran the Catholic Church in the seventeenth century for her reputed lover, Pope Innocent; and King Peggy, the true story of a Washington, DC, secretary who became a king of Ghana. In 2015 Herman published her first young adult novel. Legacy of Kings is the first of four books on the adventures of Alexander the Great at age sixteen. It has been optioned by the WB network for a TV series. Herman has made television appearances sharing her historical expertise on National Geographic, the History Channel, and the American Heroes Channel. She lives in McLean, Virginia, with her husband, four rescue cats, and a dog.
