It's the dawning of a new era for Alexandria & Cleopatra & her younger brother Ptolemy are established on the throne Long overlooked by his father in favor of his beguiling sister eleven-year-old Ptolemy is desperate to assert himself as a man & as a king But he & his advisors are no match for Queen Cleopatra who's quick to establish her primacy throughout the land from Alexandria to Upper Egypt When a year later Cleopatra alienates Rome's remaining legions & flees the palace Ptolemy finally gets his first taste of power though not without its complications Cleopatra has joined forces with their sister Arsinoe in Egypt & Ptolemy must prepare to meet their army head-on & prove his ruthlessness to Caesar Despite mounting doubts about where her sister's loyalties lie Arsinoe has remained faithful to her But when news comes that Cleopatra has manipulated Caesar to regain the throne & embraced Rome's dominance Arsinoe is torn between her warring siblings & sensing her own nascent hunger to lead rising within Arsinoe must choose whether it will be her dear sister or brother she irrevocably betrays & make a decision that will determine the fate of a kingdom & all the future of history