Michelle Moran

When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a quick and easy conquest. India is fractured and divided into kingdoms....

The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty’s royal family—with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti.

Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries.

Based on primary resources from the time, The Second Empress takes readers back to Napoleon’s empire, where royals and servants alike live at the whim of one man, and two women vie to change their destinies....

Delivered to the household of Octavian's sister, the children of Marc Antony and Cleopatra cling to each other and to the hope that they will return one day to the throne of Egypt....

The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin….

Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria to life as never before.

Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cell awaiting freedom...or death. Alone and despondent, she is as confused as the rest of the world about the charges she's been arrested on....

When Marie moves from her family's waxwork museum into the palace of Versailles, her whole life is set to change.....

Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of Maria von Trapp: a novice nun sent to teach a widowed baron's sickly child. What should have been a ten-month assignment, however, unexpectedly turned into a marriage proposal.