DAUGHTERS OF THE PHARAOH'S SEAL: The Women Who Ruled from the Shadows of Thebes

Egypt, 1332 BCE. Four women hold between them a secret that the most powerful man in Thebes will spend a decade trying to destroy.

Kiya translates diplomatic letters for men who sign them. Mutnedjmet runs an intelligence network from inside her husband's household. Ankhesenamun, the last queen of a dying dynasty, has been building her plan for three years while performing the role of passive widow. Nefertari encodes the truth into painted walls that will outlast everything.

When General Horemheb announces his intention to marry the Dowager Queen a move that would hand him the throne the four women have twelve days. What they possess is no formal power, no official title, and no room for error. What they build instead is a strategy so precise, so patient, and so deeply hidden inside the institutions that excluded them that history will never find it.

History, after all, records what men wrote on the walls.

Daughters of the Pharaoh's Seal is a richly researched, immersive work of historical fiction set in the New Kingdom period, where the gap between the official record and the actual truth is exactly wide enough for four extraordinary women to survive.

Perfect for readers of Pauline Gedge, Colleen McCullough, Stephanie Dray, and Alison Goodman. For everyone who has ever read history and noticed who was missing from it.