"The Empire bowed to him. His heart bowed only to her." The world knows her as Princess Jane Tudor of England, the English Rose-but the Ottoman Empire calls her Mihrünnisa, the Sun Among Women. In 1520, the death of Sultan Selim I changed everything. As twenty-six-year-old Şehzade Suleiman ascends the throne of the Ottoman Empire, his legally wedded wife and Haseki, Mihrünnisa Sultan, must leave the safety of Manisa behind. Heavily pregnant with their fifth child and shielding her four young royal children, she steps into the cutthroat shark tank of the Topkapı Palace harem. Mihrünnisa is unlike any consort the palace has ever seen. Born an English princess, a sister to King Henry VIII, and formerly betrothed to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, her European bloodline makes her a walking political target-especially to a deeply suspicious Valide Sultan. While her fierce rival, Mahidevran, plots for her own son, Mustafa, Mihrünnisa prefers the quiet art of background manipulation, secure in her ironclad marriage and imperial foundation. But the golden halls of Constantinople hide new shadows. On her very first night in the palace, a fiery-haired captive from Crimea named Alexandra arrives, fainting straight into the new Sultan's arms. As the tides of history shift, the English Rose must navigate a dangerous court where every smile hides a dagger. Can Mihrünnisa maintain her absolute dominance as the Sovereign Light of the World, or will the arrival of a chaotic new rival burn her empire to the ground? (Formerly Suleiman's Precious Gem and The Precious Gem of Topkapi Palace) (Magnificent Century Fan Fiction) (Part of the Royal Ladies Series)
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