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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorCounted With the Stars
Connilyn Cossette · 352 pages
Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all. Choosing to flee with the Hebrews, Kiya finds herself reliant on a strange God and drawn to a man who despises her people. With everything she's ever known swept
City of the Dead
T.L. Higley · 382 pages
Up from the sands of Egypt rises the Great Pyramid, where Hemiunu, Pharaoh’s Grand Vizier, commands the historic building project as he orders his life—with justice, truth, and precision. But when a series of murders at the site threatens chaos, Hemi must abandon his legacy to hunt down the killer who may be closer than he would like to think. Can he restore justice to the city before his careful
The Whistle Walk
Stephenia H. McGee · 374 pages
A Stray Drop of Blood
Roseanna M. White · 344 pages
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters · 280 pages
Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.
River God
Wilbur Smith · 547 pages
For Tanus, the fair-haired young lion of a warrior, the gods have decreed that he will lead Egypt's army in a bold attempt to reunite the Kingdom's shared halves. But Tanus will have to defy the same gods to attain the reward they have forbidden him, an object more prized than battle's glory: possession of the Lady Lostris, a rare beauty with skin the color of oiled ceder--destined for the adorati
Hope of the Pharaoh
Katie Hamstead · 258 pages
The Call of Zulina
Kay Marshall Strom · 303 pages
Candle in the Darkness
Lynn Austin · 456 pages
Angels Watching Over Me
Michael R. Phillips · 293 pages
A story as full of emotion and drama as the characters themselves. Born within a year of each other and in the same North Carolina county, Mayme and Katie had grown up in two separate worlds. Mayme was a member of a slave family, and her future held nothing but slavery and hardship. Katie's future was bright with promise -- a Southern family's genteel plantation life surrounded by books and music
Cleopatra's Shadows
Emily Holleman · 385 pages
Reimagines the beginnings of Cleopatra's epic saga through the eyes of her younger sister. Reading-group guide available. Abandoned by her beloved sister Cleopatra and an indifferent father, young Arsinoe must fight for her survival in the bloodthirsty royal court when her half-sister Berenice seizes Egypt's throne. To survive, she escapes the palace for the war-torn streets of Alexandria. When t
The Empire of Darkness
Christian Jacq · 353 pages
The first installment of a new series based on the life of Queen Ahotep finds the Egyptian empire beset upon by the Hyksos, an invasion against which only Thebes, under the rule of Teti the Small and her daughter, offers resistance.
Reflections in the Nile
Suzanne Frank · 418 pages
This is a time traveling romance. (But not icky romance! and not Harlequin Romance!)Basic premise: Chloe accidentally time travels back to ancient Egypt and has the body and memories of a Priestess. Her Egyptian body double is not a nice girl and that gets Chloe into some trouble. But she eventually meets a really nice guy, Cheftu. He turns out to be the mage of Pharaoh Hatshepsut and a Lord to bo
Sphinx's Princess
Esther M. Friesner
Nefertiti was far more than just a pretty face.Nefertiti may be the dutiful daughter of a commoner, but her inquisitive mind often gets her into situations that are far from ordinary, like receiving secret lessons from a scribe. And she's the kind of girl who acts first, and apologizes later whenever she witnesses injustice or cruelty. But she is also extraordinarily beautiful. And news of her str
Kleopatra
Karen Essex · 400 pages
"She was Kleopatra ... spy, diplomat, master of languages, and true world adventurer, all before she saw the first bloom of womanhood. Far from a mere seductress, Kleopatra was the dynastic and spiritual descendant of Alexander the Great, as well as the daughter of Ptolemy XII, Pharaoh of the Two Lands of Egypt. Sweeping from the great city of Alexandria of the first century B.C. across the northe
Lady of the Reeds
Pauline Gedge · 513 pages
Lily of the Nile
Stephanie Dray · 351 pages
Heiress of one empire and prisoner of another, it is up to the daughter of Cleopatra to save her brothers and reclaim what is rightfully hers.
The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt
G.A. Henty
As Sure as the Dawn
Francine Rivers · 508 pages
Atretes. German warrior. Revered gladiator. He won his freedom through his fierceness . . . but his life is about to change forever. Following A Voice in the Wind and An Echo in the Darkness, As Sure as the Dawn continues the chronicles of Hadassah, a Christian slave woman living during the height of the Roman Empire. She has saved the life of the scorned child of a disreputable Roman woman and
A.D. 33
Ted Dekker · 354 pages
"They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who opened her eyes. She found strength in his words, peace from the brutal word around her. Because of what he taught her, she has gathered her own traveling kingdom of outcasts deep in t