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(More customer reviews)You will not be sorry to go to an ancient land for this touching story of competing cultures, a strong heroine, and an author's insight into one of the lost marvels of the ancient world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. I found the historical notes, a description of characters, and a glossary to be very helpful for a non-historian reader; thus, I could approach this (to me) unfamiliar time and place with much confidence, and just let the rich details of time, place, and character wash over me ~~ much like the Euphrates itself.
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When the young girl, Nitocris, leaves her village to live in the Babylon harem of King Nebuchadnezzar, she enters a Palace lifefilled with concubines and courtiers, princes vying for the throne, and scribes serving warring gods. Although a favorite of the King, Nitocris finds harem life confining.By law, she is to become a queen, but a shocking event changes that.When she proposes the building of a garden mountain, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the King approves the project. The challenges of building a mountain in the desert and watering its grandiose gardens bring the temptations of forbidden love to three couples who test the boundaries set by tradition, the king and religion. Can Nitocris, property of the King, resist her attraction to the Jewish exile Avnah?Will the passion of the scribes Kaylah and Samuel transcend the gods' prohibitions?The oracular priestess and the royal Overseer try to maneuver skillfully through the perils of Palace treachery as the improbable gardens begin to rise above the converging Tigris and Euphrates rivers.All discover the high cost of crossing cultures, realizing ambitions and consummating love.
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