Readers who adore the character of Alexander Helios will also finally learn what happened once and for all to the young prince of Egypt.
These lessons also help her realize that she cannot force her eldest daughter, Cleopatra Isidora, to follow the queenly path Selene herself walked, and she learns to let her daughter go to live her own life.
From falling in love and learning to trust Juba II, the man she was forced to marry, to re-building a familial bond that Selene once thought was lost forever (despite the emperor Augustus’s efforts to destroy her soul), Selene perseveres in living her life on her own terms, not anyone else’s. She learns to put aside her bitter hatred and awakens to find love again. Readers get a glimpse of the endless machinations of the imperial court of Rome and their client kingdoms, which includes Selene’s adopted land of Mauretania as well.ĭespite the endless jockeying for position and prestige in imperial Rome, Selene’s story is about survival. By the time the third book opens, Selene is an experienced ruler who knows the ins and outs of playing the political game. In Dray’s first two novels, readers watch Cleopatra Selene II, the daughter of infamous lovers Cleopatra VII and Marc Antony, grow from terrified captive to young Queen. Stephanie Dray Ends Her Trilogy with the Conclusive “Daughters of the Nile”
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