Mailbox Monday


Another Monday, Another Mailbox!! This is a feature where we all share with each other the yummy books that showed up at our doors! WARNING: Mailbox Mondays can lead to extreme envy and GINORMOUS wishlists!!

Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page, but for the month of December MM is on tour and hosted by Rose City Reader. Yours truly will be the MM host for April!

Hey all! I hope you are all doing fabulously! I only have one addition to my TBR mountain to report, but it's a good one! I won a copy of Stephanie Dray's Lily of the Nile from my girl Liz at Historically Obsessed and I received it this weekend and it was sweetly signed by the author! Thanks Liz and Stephanie, I'm really looking forward to reading it!

Lily of the Nile
by Stephanie Dray

Publication Date: January 4, 2011

SYNOPSIS

With her parents dead, the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony is left atthe mercy of her Roman captors. Heir to one empire and prisoner of another,Princess Selene must save her brothers and reclaim what is rightfully hers...

In the aftermath of Alexandria's tragic fall, Princess Selene is taken from Egypt, theonly home she's ever known. Along with her two surviving brothers, she's put ondisplay as a war trophy in Rome. Selene's captors mock her royalty and drag herthrough the streets in chains, but on the brink of death, the children are spared as afavor to the emperor's sister, who takes them to live as hostages in the so-called lamentable embassy of royal orphans...

Trapped in a Roman court of intrigue that reviles her heritage and suspects her faith,Selene can't hide the hieroglyphics that carve themselves into her flesh. Nor can shestop the emperor from using her for his own political ends. Faced with a new andruthless Caesar who is obsessed with having a Cleopatra of his very own, Selene isdetermined to honor her mother's lost legacy. The magic of Egypt and Isis remainwithin her. Can she succeed where her mother failed? And what will it cost her in apolitical game where the only rule is win or die?

That's my mailbox! What goodies came your way?


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