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1) Siege
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Three people will struggle to determine the fate of an empire - the young Turkish sultan, desperate to prove his greatness; a stubborn Byzantine princess, sworn to protect her city; and a mercenary captain with a score to settle. But of them, it is the hardened soldier Giovanni Longo who will face the worst choice.
Author
Series
Midwife volume 2
Description
1579: Hannah Levi, a Venetian exile, has set up a new life for herself as the best midwife in all of Constantinople, tending to the thousand women of the Sultan's lively and infamous harem. One night, when Hannah is unexpectedly summoned to the palace, she's confronted with Leah, a poor Jewish peasant girl who has been abducted and sold into the harem. The Sultan wants her to produce his heir, but the girl just wants to return to her home and the...
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