Deeply loving parents of one another, a mother feeling responsible for not being able to give her husband a son, a fragile health forced them to leave for Byblos. His innocent complicity with Odenath bearing the same name as the uncle who will be her future husband, their mutual love whose secrets remain buried in the greenery of the city cradle of their adolescence.
Queen, mother, wife as a friend and advisor of a wise and loving man, faithful and daring companion on the battlefield, surrounded by linguists philosophers, historians, strategists, adored by the people, respected and fear of the vanquished kings. Always a proud woman, now worn by grief, loneliness and the weight of memories of an intense life which was only smiles, a glorious destiny blessed by the gods, that tries to pass his life for posterity and to restore truths to silence the easy rumor, gossip too quickly peddled.
The determinations of the securities, the names of ancient cities and rebels characters or rivals in the time of Roman domination is not something easy to digest for those who do not know a minimum the history of that time. This historical novel meets all the research I was able to do about this warrior queen, but it's mostly a story rocked by a typically oriental poetry full of sun and exotic scents, sea spray, blasts warm and peaceful images that invite to long journeys, escape.
