The Pomegranate Queen
A rich, atmospheric historical drama about a woman healer, court intrigue, forbidden love, family loyalty, poison and power, and the fall of Moorish SpainBy Dorothea O. Coleridge
Length6h 50m
About this audiobook
One drop of myrrh too many, and a man dies.
One secret too many, and a kingdom falls.
In the last days of Moorish Granada, a healer's daughter grinds medicine in her father's shop, the crescent burns on her palms aching with every turn of the pestle.
Her hands must be steadier than a surgeon's.
Her father says a woman's hands always must.
When the silk merchant Yusuf ibn Rashid collapses after feasting at the sultan's palace, his skin the color of honey gone wrong, she knows the truth long before anyone dares say it aloud.
This was no bad lamb.
This was poison.
"My mother says a woman can't know the humors the way a man can," the merchant's son tells her.
But she knows exactly what killed his father, and she knows who would gladly silence a healer who knows too much.
Drawn behind the carved arches and arabesque walls of the Alhambra, she is pulled into the perfumed, treacherous world of the court, bound to the wounded, gentle son with the loose dark curls and the deepening limp.
It is a place where every cup of antidote could be a cup of death, and every smile hides a knife.
A forbidden friendship across a widening divide.
A buried secret that should never have surfaced.
A queen mother's garden hiding more bodies than blooms.
As the Christian armies close in and the last pomegranates of the season ripen and split on the branch, she is forced toward an impossible choice between the man she has come to love, the father who shaped her every breath, and a truth that could cost her everything she has.
Some secrets wait centuries to be told.
Some letters cross a lifetime to find the one who needs them most.
The Pomegranate Queen is a rich, atmospheric historical drama about a woman healer, court intrigue, forbidden love, family loyalty, poison and power, and the fall of Moorish Spain.
Perfect for readers who love sweeping historical fiction, women in medicine, palace conspiracies, star-crossed romance, and secrets that echo across generations. A standalone novel of Moorish Spain.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Romance, General Fiction
Length6 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
12Chapter 10 - The Cell of Salt and Sand
2Dedication
13Chapter 11 - The Queen Mother’s Garden
3Chapter 1 - The Seeds of a Lie
14Chapter 12 - The Feast of the Last Lamb
4Chapter 2 - What the Dead Know
15Chapter 13 - The Dawn Reckoning
5Chapter 3 - The Gate of No Return
16Chapter 14 - The Cup of Antidote
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6Chapter 4 - The Merchant’s Debt
17Chapter 15 - The Wound That Won’t Close
7Chapter 5 - The False Offering
18Chapter 16 - The Last Harvest of Pomegranates
8Chapter 6 - The Physician’s Shade
19Chapter 17 - The Sea That Swallows Memories
9Chapter 7 - The Princess of No Return
20Chapter 18 - The City of Promise
10Chapter 8 - The Book of Cut Pages
21Chapter 19 - The Pomegranate Queen
11Chapter 9 - The Weight of Blood
22About the Author
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