Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author ofFaeboundandThe Final Strife.

This stunning edition includes designed endpapers and a custom case stamp.

YOU KNOW MY NAME, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.

Your historians call me seductress, but I waseverin love’s thrall.

Your playwrightsspeak of witchcraft,but my talents came from the gods themselves.

Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I wasalwaysprotecting my children.

How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, and divinely blessed to rule.

Death will silence me no longer.

This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.

Saara El-Arifiis an internationally bestselling and award winning author of fantasy and historical fiction. 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 masters degree in African studies specialising in Cleopatras myth and her impact on Black women. She currently resides in London as a full-time procrastinator.

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publish Date: February 24, 2026
• Pages: 336
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC:9780593875643
• Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.0 inches | 1.3pounds
• BISACCategories: Historical Fiction, Popular Fiction, Fiction