Cleopatra's Moon

Cleopatra's Moon by Shecter, Vicky Alvear. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780545394567.

This edition is available for distribution only through the school market PRINCESS OF EGYPT Cleopatra Selene is the only daughter of the brilliant Queen Cleopatra of Egypt and General Marcus Antonius of Rome. Shes grown up with jewels on her arms, servants at her feet, and all the pleasures of a palace at her command, and she wants only to follow in her mothers footsteps and become a great and powerful queen. PRISONER OF ROME Then the Roman ruler Octavianus, who has always wanted Egypts wealth, launches a war that destroys all Selene has ever known. Taken to live in Octavianuss palace in Rome, she vows to defeat him and reclaim her kingdom at all costs. Yet even as she gathers support for her return, Selene finds herself torn between two young men and two different paths to power. Will love distract her from her goal-or help her achieve her true destiny? Epic in scope and ravishing in detail, this novel reveals the incredible life of a girl long hidden in history: the remarkable Cleopatra Selene.