Harem
Think harems don’t interest you? This best-seller about Suleiman the Magnificent and Hurrem will change your mind.
In the harem you love, you rule… or you die.
Istanbul, 1520: Suleiman the Magnificent is weary of politics and people. On the battlefields, his sons manoeuvre for power until he doesn’t know which one to trust.
Istanbul, 1520: Suleiman the Magnificent is weary of politics and people. On the battlefields, his sons manoeuvre for power until he doesn’t know which one to trust.
And behind the doors of the forbidden palace, his concubines vie for favour whatever the cost. None catches his eye.
Until Hurrem. The laughing one. She knows there is only one way out of the sultan’s gilded prison – bear him a son.
In medieval Venice, Abbas is the impetuous and headstrong son of the city’s military commander. He embarks on an ill-advised romantic adventure with horrific and unthinkable consequences.
When a terrible twist of fate throws Abbas and Hurrem together inside the byzantine world of the Ottoman court, their intrigues threaten the very future of the empire and its sultan.
Because there are only two options in the menacing paradise of Suleiman’s harem.
Power. Or death.
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