Song of Songs

TWO SISTERS. TWO THRONES. ONE LEGEND THAT NEVER TOLD THE WHOLE TRUTH. A notably original reinterpretation of an ancient legend ensconced within an epic tale of political power and romantic longing. -Kirkus Reviews History remembers her as a queen who rode north with a caravan of riches to test a king’s wisdom, then went home no better known than before. That is the story you were told. It isn’t the story that happened. Makeda is six years old when a flood tears her family apart, sweeping her sister Bilkis away, and leading to the deaths of her mother and father. Still, Makeda thrives, becoming ruler of Saba on terms entirely her own, proving her right to the throne through a trial that was supposed to break her. But the dam that keeps her people alive is failing, and no one in Saba knows how to save it. Bilkis survives too. She becomes Queen of Israel. And she will do whatever the crown requires, things the chroniclers chose not to record. When Saba’s dam crumbles past mending, Makeda travels to Israel in search of the one man who might know how to save it: Yetzer, the exiled master builder raising Jerusalem’s grand temple stone by stone. What she finds instead is the sister she thought she’d lost, a throne built on secrets, and a man worth risking everything for - if Bilkis will let her keep any of it. SONG OF SONGS reimagines the legend of the Queen of Sheba as history might actually have lived it: two queens the Bible barely named, a rivalry it never recorded, and a reckoning it left out entirely. '[A] story and characters as vivid and real as yesterday.' -Coffee and Ink 'A masterpiece of orchestration and concept ... a deeply compelling tale of a people and period in history that few know well.' -Readers’ Favorite For readers of The Red Tent, Circe, and Wisdom’s Daughter - this is ancient-world historical fiction that doesn’t look away. Note: This novel is intended for mature readers.