“You will be called Anippe, daughter of the Nile. Do you
like it?” Without waiting for a reply, she pulls me into her
squishy, round tummy for a hug.
I’m trying not to cry. Pharaoh’s daughters don’t cry.
When we make our way down the tiled hall, I try to stop at
ummi Kiya’s chamber. I know her spirit has flown yet I long
for one more moment. Amenia pushes me past so I keep walking
and don’t look back.
Like the waters of the Nile, I will flow.
Anippe has grown up in the shadows of Egypt’s good god
Pharaoh, aware that Anubis, god of the afterlife, may take
her or her siblings at any moment. She watched him snatch
her mother and infant brother during childbirth, a moment
which awakens in her a terrible dread of ever bearing a
child. Now she is to be become the bride of Sebak, a kind
but quick-tempered Captain of Pharaoh Tut’s army. In order
to provide Sebak the heir he deserves and yet protect
herself from the underworld gods, Anippe must launch a
series of deceptions, even involving the Hebrew
midwives—women ordered by Tut to drown the sons of their own
people in the Nile.
When she finds a baby floating in a basket on the great
river, Anippe believes Egypt’s gods have answered her pleas,
entrenching her more deeply in deception and placing her and
her son Mehy, whom handmaiden Miriam calls Moses, in mortal
danger.
As bloodshed and savage politics shift the balance of
power in Egypt, the gods reveal their fickle natures and
Anippe wonders if her son, a boy of Hebrew blood, could one
day become king. Or does the god of her Hebrew servants, the
one they call El Shaddai, have a different plan—for them all?
I always liked the Book of Ruth. This sounds like a such a good read and informational. I have added you to my TBR list of authors. Thanks for writing these Biblical historical books. (Leona Olson 8:36am March 18, 2015)
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