Pharaoh Akhenaten's attempts to introduce monotheism have caused widespread resentment in the people of Egypt, and his attempts at rulership are further challenged by his inability to beget a son and a plague that forces him to offer a co-rulership to his brother, so when his god tells him to go to the desert he complies with surprising results.

Princess Melisende of Outremer, the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, is forced to marry Count Fulk of France who will become king in her place after her father's death. A strong woman, Melisende does not submit to Fulk for long. Assisted by her life-long companions Lady Richildis and Sir Bertrand Melisende rules the exotic land of Outremer.

In this intensely romantic fantasy, a beautiful priestess of the Goddess, sister to the Queen of Epiros, is compelled by her destiny to seek out and wed the most powerful man of the time, King Phillip of Macedon. She will become a figure of legend, and their son will rule the world." "She was a priestess of the Great Goddess, one of the last in a time when the worship of the Mother was dwindling away. But she was also a daughter of the ruling house...

Nicole Gunther-Perrin is struggling to deal with her deadbeat ex-husband, the unwanted advances of her law partner, her son's childhood crisis, when she finds herself transported back in time, to 170 A.D., an era she discovers is just as corrupt and violent as modern-day L.A.

Judith Tarr returns to the always fascinating character of Alexander the Great in this fantasy novel that springs from the legend that the Queen of the Amazons came to meet him in Persia, and became his friend. Hippolyta was Penthesilea, or Queen of the Amazons. She ruled as war leader and high priestess of a scattered tribe of women warriors who had dwelt on the high plains to the north and east of Persia for time out of mind. They were not isolated---travelers...