Palmyra Stories

Zenobia is not the queen the history books promised. She is a widow in hardened leather, a huntress who sharpens her iron with the same ruthless precision she uses to command an empire. When the world burns and the Roman eagles circle, she is the only thing standing between her people and the dust. From the sandstone ridges of Palmyra to the marble halls of Rome, this is the story of a woman who wore a crown of thorns and a chain of gold-and dared the world to break her. She didn't just challenge an empire. She made it bleed.

On a rainy night in Istanbul, Sara El-Naggar, a meticulous manuscript restoration expert, receives a mysterious burnt document. In its corner, a symbol she thought was just a myth: a black crescent with seven dots. The same symbol her late professor warned her about: "If the Black Crescent appears again, trust no one." Before she can decode it, the document is stolen. The thief is chased by Badr El-Salmi - a reckless relic hunter haunted by his father's disappearance 15 years ago in the desert while searching for the legendary artifact known as The Heart of Orion. What Sara holds is not just an artifact. It's Piece One of a map that leads to the Heart. And the man hunting it, Nader Valk, will burn entire cities to find it. From the alleys of Istanbul to the frozen vaults of Venice, from the silent islands to the buried city of Palmyra, Badr and Sara must run, decode, and survive. Because under the ash, there was a line no one saw: He who carries the Heart, opens the Gate of Ash.

A history lover teenager visits a very ancient archeological site with her family and her talking parrot and what follows is an amazing series of adventures leading the girl to a lost city of Mesopotamia where she encounters strange and enigmatic spirits, Anzu bird from whose lion's head roared thunder....... Highest ranking at 19 in historical fiction category although the story is incomplete This novella is now available on Amazon on the following link http://www.amazon.in/dp/1946436216 This is my first in the series KRIYA'S HISTORY-MYSTERY The aim of this series is to create love for History in people who mark it as an an insipid subject. HAPPY READING