The Moon That Fell From Heaven by N. L. Holmes – Review by Roxsanne Lesieur.

The Moon That Fell from Heaven by N.L. Holmes
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ehli-nikkalu is a daughter of the Hittite Emperor, not just any daughter, his eldest and has been married off to one of his vassals in a political alliance, she has never been truly loved by her family and she is not much more successful at being loved by her husband, he has in fact very rarely visited her chambers and any friendship, or tenderness between them has been replaced by bitterness and anger and all because she hasn’t produced an heir and is considered barren. This wedge has not just driven itself between the King and Queen, it has been driven through the entire court and has left her all but bereft from the workings of the Kingdom and its subjects and she is not happy about it, but there is nothing she can do when her husbands family only tolerate her presence and she cannot truly trust anyone around her. One day her husband visits her chambers, but it is only to make a request of her not to make a fool of herself or his court when visitors come, however, when he leaves her, he also leaves something behind and so she requests her scribe to attend to her and read what has been left, it happens to be an incriminating letter showing treasonous activities against the Emperor.

Astonished by her luck finding this, she immediately dictates a letter to her father and requests that her scribe delivers it to her most trusted courier immediately, however, when she wakes in the morning, she finds that both of them have been murdered and she believes that all is lost, that is until their daughter arrives returning the letters and the Queen sees another chance for redemption, so after giving her condolences, she finds out that this young woman was a witness and she immediately decides to take her and her siblings under her protection until the culprits are caught. This is where the Queen decides that she needs to take this adopted family she is growing fond of to somewhere safer and nearer to their blood relatives, so while she is planning this, as scribe comes to call and express his condolences and help if she needs it, so when she requests a new scribe, he knows just the one and it happens to be another family member of her newly adopted one, he seldom speaks and has a gruff attitude, he is also ex-military, a proficient scribe and loyal to her.

When the Queen is finally able to make her journey to take her wards to their relatives under the guise of paying a visit to some of her estates, she is waylaid by the plans of others and she ends up in the middle of a war between distant relatives and a plan to overthrow her husband, as well as the information which she holds closely to her chest with nobody to rely on but her adopted family and the self doubt they all possess, but can she get the information she holds to her father in time to stop the coup, or will she fall victim before she can truly experience that love she has been craving all her life? This is an epic tale of lies, truths, trust and intrigue as you are led on a journey through a historic time where nobody shows their true colours and danger lurks around every turn.

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