"I know," Satiah called. Her voice was musical, light, confident as a king's. "It's the Bull of Min you remember, Thutmose. You remember, and you fear."
Conspiracy and treason simmer in the northern reaches of the Two Lands. Thutmose is crippled by guilt over past wrongs. Hatshepsut is subdued by the grief of betrayal and loss. Meryet, the new Great Royal Wife, is the sole force holding the royal family - and Egypt - together.
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