Zenobia: The Arab Queen

In cosmopolitan Palmyra, Zenobia grows from the daughter of a noble house into queen and regent, trained in observation, language, statecraft, and the obligations of rule. Widowhood, motherhood, generals, priests, tribal and urban loyalties, Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome expand the private life around the remembered sovereign. The novel follows her not as a footnote to Roman history but as a ruler making choices under pressure while raising a son, defending a kingdom, and transforming the inheritance left by her husband into an imperial claim of her own.