Queen. Lover. Stateswoman. Strategist. Wife. Mother. Commander. Pharaoh.

Kleopatra must embody all roles as the mesmerizing sequel to Kleopatra Book I unfolds, and this magnificent sage reaches its stunning culmination.

In this volume, Kleopatra, the most celebrated woman of the ancient world, has been reinstated to the throne. Embracing the fierce mission that will ultimately shape her into the Queen of Kings, Pharaoh of the Two Lands of Egypt, shenow shares her bed with the conqueror Julius Caesar.

But in order for their infant son to be officially recognized as Caesar’s rightful heir, Kleopatra must journey with the child to Rome. There she forms an intimate bond with Mark Antony, Caesar’s second-in-command. When Caesar is assassinated, it is Antony who wages war against the slain ruler’s monstrous nephew, Octavian, who claims it is he, and not Kleopatra’s son, who is next in line to rule.

Now Antony and Kleopatra are inextricably allied in love and in a fierce fight against a formidable enemy, where no less than the control of the world is at stake.

In the stormy wake of the decisive battle, Kleopatra will write her own final act, crowning history’s grandest and most poignant love story