The Moon That Fell from Heaven

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ehli-nikkalu eldest daughter of the Hittite emperor is married to a mere vassal of her father. But despite her status her foreignness and inability to produce an heir drive a wedge between her and the court that surrounds her. When her secretary is mysteriously murdered while carrying the emperor a message that would indict the loyalty of his vassal Ehli-nikkalu adopts the dead man's orphaned children out of a guilty sense of responsibility.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A young cousin she has never met becomes a pretender to the throne and mobilizes roving armies of the poor and dispossessed which causes the priority of her loyalties to become even more suspect. However Ehli-nikkalu discovers a terrible secret that could destabilize the present regime if the pretender ever learns of it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With the help of a kindly scribe her brave young ward and an embittered former soldier trapped in debt and self-doubt Ehli-nikkalu sets out to save the kingdom and prove herself to her father. And along the way she learns something about love.</span></p>