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Queen Adeliza is married to a warrior who supports Stephen, grandson of the Conqueror, while her stepdaughter, Empress Matilda, will let no one, not even Stephen himself, stand in the way of her inheritance.
Mehrunnisa, Emperor Jahangir's twentieth and last wife, and the only woman he has married for love, finds herself battling enemies within and outside the imperial harem when her husband confers upon her his powers of sovereignty.
Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Mehrunnisa, a sixteenth-century empress of India whose love helped shape the course of the Mughal empire in the seventeenth century.