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Cleopatra
A Novel
2026
First Published
4.15
Average Rating
336
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Queen, Legend, Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic Cleopatra, from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife . YOU KNOW MY NAME. BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME. Your historians call me seductress, but I was always in love's thrall. Your playwrights speak of my witchcraft, but I was gifted my talents by the gods. Your poets sing of my blood-lust, but I was protecting my children. They cannot credit that a mere woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely blessed to rule. Death will silence me no longer. This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.

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Author

Saara El-Arifi
Saara El-Arifi
Author · 10 books

Saara El-Arifi is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ending Fire Trilogy and the Faebound Trilogy. El-Arifi knew she was a storyteller from the moment she told her first lie. Over the years, she has perfected her tall tales into epic ones. She has lived in many countries, had many jobs, and owned many more cats. After a decade of working in marketing and communications, she returned to academia to complete a master’s degree in African studies alongside her writing career. She currently resides in London as a full-time procrastinator.

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