A tale of kings and queens, a bloodstained struggle for the throne and forbidden love. When power was absolute and life was short, a young woman was destined to rule the world’s first empire. Hatshepsut, the gifted and beautiful daughter of the Pharaoh, vows to accept whatever fate the gods have decreed for her. When just fourteen, she kills a marauder, is betrothed to her loathsome brother and becomes the most powerful priestess in Egypt. She falls in love with Senenmut, the brilliant commoner who is torn between his yearning for Hatshepsut and his duty to protect her. When her father dies, Hatshepsut must make the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of Egypt. Her Majesty the King is the story of Hatshepsut’s turbulent path to the throne. She battles bigotry, heartbreak and betrayal in the glittering but treacherous world of Egypt’s royal court. Hatshepsut and Senenmut’s forbidden passion is one of history’s greatest untold love stories. In a novel based on real people and events, author Patricia L. O’Neill cracks the mystery of the female Pharaoh’s rise to power with painstaking research using the original ancient sources. Her Majesty the King is a triumphant blend of historical fact and heart-stopping emotion—historical fiction that will draw you in and hold you spellbound.  Her Majesty the King won the 2008 NSW Writers’ Centre Award for Genre Fiction.

In the glittering but treacherous kingdom of the Pharaohs, young Queen Hatshepsut must become a warrior king or face the annihilation of her people. Freed from her incestuous marriage and enthroned as a god in her own right, Hatshepsut finds the whole world is opposed to a woman who rules over men. To prove her sanction by the gods, she risks her life and her crown by erecting a monument to rival the pyramids. On the brink of her triumph, a conspiracy plunges Egypt into rebellion. The struggle to save her nation throws Hatshepsut into epic battles, a race for hidden treasure and a heartbreaking betrayal that shatters the man she loves.

Egypt in 1476 BCE is on the brink of disaster. The female Pharaoh Hatshepsut has crushed a bloody rebellion, but she invoked the treacherous god Seth to annihilate her enemies. Now he is devouring her soul. But she needs Seth's power even more to defeat the warlords of Canaan and Syria, who have vowed to destroy the woman who dares rule over men. And what better revenge than to burn alive Hatshepsut's own daughter as a sacrifice to their savage gods? Hatshepsut must find a way to smash Egypt's brutal enemies without becoming a monster herself. The men who adore Hatshepsut struggle to outdo one another for her love, but their jealousy and hatred escalate to murderous intensity. Heartbreaking tragedies challenge the female Pharaoh's fidelity, faith and even her sanity. Egypt reaches unprecedented power and wealth as she conquers everything but her own heart.