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Gold Beneath the Crocodile Throne is a lush, dangerous love story set in the final blaze of Cleopatra VII's reign, where candlelit corridors hold secrets and the Nile carries whispers. Summoned to Alexandria, Sahira-a Black woman of southern bloodlines with a strategist's mind and a spine of steel-finds herself deliberately placed between a queen's designs and Rome's hunger.
When she collides with Cassian Aurelian, a Roman commander whose loyalties are fraying, attraction becomes a weapon, then a refuge, and finally a vow. Amid festivals that glow like embers, flooded streets that mirror the sky, and temples humming with power, they craft a bond that is intimate, unflinching, and politically lethal.
As forged decrees, velvet betrayals, and sanctimonious rivals close in, Sahira learns to shape the city's pulse, to steady a crown history loves loudly, and to leave fingerprints on a future that refuses to record her name. This is fanfiction where the canon creaks, queens teach in whispers, and love chooses to stay when escape is easier.
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