My name is Eileen. But it wasn't always like that...
I was born in Barcelona, Spain in the year 1522 and my name was Aurora; donia Aurora-Maria Perez y Alcantara. On my eighteenth birthday I was kidnapped by Moroccan pirates, who sold me as a slave to the harem of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. And that's how my story began...
Η Aurora found herself from one moment to the next in Topkapi, the glittering palace of Constantinople, as a slave in the harem of the sultan of the world's greatest empire, the Ottoman Empire.
The difficult and cruel world of the harem, as well as the intrigues between the sultanas - the powerful Hurrem Sultan, the legal wife of Sultan Suleiman, and Mahidevran Sultan, the mother of the heir to the throne - will also seduce Eileen, who will enter and she in the fierce battle for the throne, to fight with all her strength and at the risk of her life for the man she loves.
A historical novel with exemplary research documentation and strong female characters.
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