Death of an Eye

Alexandria, 47BCE: Cleopatra shares the throne with her brother Ptolemy under the auspices of Julius Caesar, by whom Cleopatra is heavily pregnant with child. A shipment of new coin meant to reset the shaky Egyptian economy has been stolen, the Queen’s Eye has been murdered and Queen Cleopatra turns to childhood friend Tetisheri to find the missing shipment and bring the murderer to justice.
"Sefkhet, as she was called by the Egyptians, Selene by the Greeks, cast her pale-faced glory upon the storied city on the southeastern edge of the Middle Sea, turning columned palaces and marbled streets into a city of ghosts, luminous, shifting, dreamlike, a place of legends that had only gained in renown in the three hundred years since its founding. To the north, the Middle Sea was a continuous ripple of gilt, Lake Mareotis a shadowed mirror to the south, the Nile a slender silver ribbon to the east, all of them bathed in the glow of her care. Nothing escaped her eye. The woman in labor all night in her home in the Egyptian Quarter near the Western Gate had finally given birth to a fine, lusty son and both were now deep asleep. In a house in the Royal Quarter events were occurring that saddened her, but things like that were best left to the judgement of Hathor and she moved on. The queen slept in the Royal Palace next to the man she had chosen as her consort, and was ripe with his child. Sefkhet was not an admirer, as he was a worshipper of alien gods, but the queen was strong and intelligent and fit to rule a land as diverse as this one and thus far Sefkhet had reserved judgement."