Used book - Queen Liberty, Vol. 1: The Empire of Darkness, Christian Jacq

Egypt is a mere shadow of its former self. An army of barbarians from Asia has swept through the empire. They are called the Hyksos, the "rulers of foreign lands." They have enslaved the land of the pharaohs.

Only one city has not surrendered, Thebes, still ruled by the widow of the last pharaoh, Teti the Younger. And Teti knows that men have given up in the face of the Hyksos' cruelty.

But Teti has an eighteen-year-old daughter, Ahotep. And she has never accepted defeat. Proud, beautiful, courageous, she decides to rekindle the flame of Egyptian resistance...