Seven Wonders (Higley)

Will her solitude cost her everything?For twenty years, Sophia has guarded the Lighthouse of Alexandria, alone in her task and in her heart. Her pain and loss keep her hidden and isolated, even as the elderly scholars she funds in the famed Library try to coax her into the world. But Julius Caesar and his Roman legions are bearing down on Cleopatra's Egypt. And when a Roman centurion marches his troops into her lighthouse, endangering the city's best scholars and their secret invention, Sophia's peace is shattered. As the historic war erupts, tangling Sophia in its chaos, she finds the Roman centurion instructed to invade her lighthouse is also invading her heart. Now Sophia must do whatever it takes to keep him out-even if it costs her everything. Book 3 of the epic series The Seven Wonders Novels, which can be read in any order.

Will she risk herself-to save her kingdom?Seven years, she has waited.Since her treaty marriage at a young age, the Babylonian princess Tiamat has lived the opulent, and yet oppressive, life of the palace. And for seven years, her father, the mad king Nebuchadnezzar, has lived as a beast, hidden away to prowl his luxurious Hanging Gardens. But when Tia's husband dies, the powerful mage Shadir plots to expose the family's secret and set his own man on the throne. And a nobleman's macabre death suggests a dark force is at work in the palace. Now Tia must enlist the help of a reluctant Jewish captive, her late husband's brother, a man who denounces her notions of the gods, even as he challenges her heart. But does madness run in the family? Book 4 of the epic series The Seven Wonders Novels, which can be read in any order.