Cleopatra: A Novel

**Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of *Faebound* and *The Final Strife*.
“Enchanting, smart, and subversive—this is El-Arifi’s masterpiece”—RF Kuang, *#1 New York Times* bestselling author of *Katabasis* **
***YOU KNOW MY NAME, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.***
Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.
Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves.
Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children.
How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, and divinely blessed to rule.
Death will silence me no longer.
This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.