The Egyptian Pharaoh's perilous search for a wife

By Anna Patterson

She dreamed of "A Place of Dragons" and all her life she was called The Dragon Woman. Would a Dragon Man be her fate?
Life is cruel and harsh. She learned that when her twin brother was sacrificed to the gods. And her cruel aunt lived for the day she could do this to Tishiba. But her uncle kept her alive, thinking her magical powers could be a blessing of the gods themselves. Meanwhile, the young pharaoh was in victory from the defeat of his enemies, but had lost his wife to illness, and was seeking a new bride.
Tishiba wanted no part of her aunt's matchmaking. She wanted to be hidden away in her rooms until the young ruler left the premises, but fate is cruel and Tishiba was liberally flung into the Pharaoh's arms. Now her aunt and everyone in her uncle's court was appalled at the turn of events. Could even the Pharaoh protect her from such a killing wrath?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anna Patterson
• Release date: Apr 20, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458111593

Anna Patterson

About the Author: Anna Patterson grew up in the Ozark Hills with a dream of becoming an archeologist. She was able as a young adult to put the desire to good use exploring the mountains and river line of the Ozarks for early artifacts from the past. Many times in her treks deep into the wilderness forests, she was able to seek out and see first hand abandoned cemeteries of pioneers and Indians there and Ghost towns which had been abandoned during an earlier time. But it was her desire to know more about the early civilizations which resulted in her entering into her studies in history, art, and especially ancient civilizations in college. Her life as a writer brought her to many years of work in Journalism from college papers to work as a reporter and at one point Society Editor. She is now pursuing her desire to write fiction novels and feels that this allows her to put to use her life’s study of antiquities. She and her husband live in a house over 100 years old with their two Yorkies and two cats.

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THE EGYPTIAN PHARAOH’S

PERILOUS SEARCH FOR A WIFE

Published by Anna Patterson at Smashwords

Copyright 2011 Anna Patterson

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This is a work of fiction.

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Above all others, this book is for Bill, my husband, who has believed in me with all his heart and encouraged me totally in this.

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CONTENTS

1. Chapter One When Lovers Meet

2. Chapter Two Buried Alive

3. Chapter Three Meeting of Two Lovers

4. Chapter Four Enter the Taskmaster

5. Chapter Five The Pharaoh Shows Some Magic

6. Chapter Six End of a vicious and terrible woman and more trouble

7. Chapter Seven The Sword Fight

8. Chapter Eight Sophet the nurse tells the Pharaoh a secret

9. Chapter Nine The Joyous recognition of lovers

10. Chapter Ten – To Love The Pharaoh

11. Chapter Eleven – The Pharaoh marries

12. Chapter Twelve – Ahmose I consummates his marriage

13. Chapter Thirteen – The life of the royal couple

14. Chapter Fourteen – She finds herself with child

15. Chapter Fifteen – Tomett buys his freedom with his life

16. Chapter Sixteen – The will of Ahmose I is felt in his kingdom

THE EGYPTIAN PHARAOH’S

PERILOUS SEARCH FOR A WIFE

The story of the Pharaoh Ahmose I

This is the fictionalized story of the second wife of Ahmose I, founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty, in Egypt.

This is a story of love, but even though the young girl, Tishiba, dreamed of A Place of Dragons and all her life she was called The Dragon Woman, would a Dragon Man be her fate?

Life is cruel and harsh. She learned that when her twin brother was sacrificed to the gods. And her cruel aunt lived for the day she could do this to Tishiba But Tishiba’s uncle kept her alive, thinking her magical powers could be a blessing of the gods, themselves, and for a long time, it seems that this was so Meanwhile, the young pharaoh was in victory from the defeat of his enemies, but had lost his wife to illness, and was seeking a new bride.

Tishiba wanted no part of her aunt’s matchmaking. She wanted to be hidden away in her rooms until the young ruler left the premises, but fate is cruel and Tishiba was literally flung into the Pharaoh’s arms. Now her aunt and everyone in her uncle’s court were appalled at the turn of events. Could even the Pharaoh protect her from such a killing wrath?

But later their love found a way. And it happened this way

They had been through so much together, but they were together now and he meant to teach her the lesson of love, but he knew this would be difficult for her and for him. Nonetheless, he knew she loved him and most of all he knew she was loved by the Pharaoh of Egypt, himself. So he explained, Every time you try to irritate me at all, I plan to show you what love really is, Ahmose I, the Pharaoh of Egypt, said to the beautiful young girl, who had been almost a slave in her rich uncle’s house. She had been shoved into the intrigues in her uncle’s royal court after being hastily brought from the Island of Crete after her parents, wine merchants, had been lost with one of their ships at sea

Now, the blonde temptress felt indeed a slave girl, to this man, as never before in her life. Her body trembled to be his, her kisses wanted him to be hers.

Nonetheless, she turned shyly away from him at the beginning of this volatile relationship, hid her face, but he fought her hands for a look at her tiny face and pinned her hands to his chest His masculinity overwhelmed her.

I don’t know what you are talking about, Tishiba whispered in great alarm.

That means I touch you in places where you don’t want to be touched, and I tell you I love you, and I hold you as you do not want to be held, Ahmose I held her tightly and she gasped to breathe. And I satisfy myself with your body because you belong to me.

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Author’s Note

Egypt was an introverted country in its early beginnings. Rulers controlled small areas, land-locked and safe because they were isolated from the beginning Egyptian history by many, Egypt is considered the oldest civilization in the world except for Samaria and Caldea. With recordings of its history dating back around 3,000 BC, this story takes place near the end of the seventeenth century. This was when pirates began to explore the violent seas.

The Egyptians loved their art, their religion, and the slaves sold to them.

It was during this time, powerful men and men with considerable wealth took slave women as wives, and the women sometimes feigned love for them, while they desperately sought a way out of the country of their oppressing masters, who worshipped other gods, and held other beliefs.

Some of these captured women rose to power in the seventeenth century in the royal houses of Egypt, in royal households, scattered into several city states at that time.

These woman practiced witchcraft and sorcery under the loving eyes of their royal husbands, and the slave women became feared, and later it was tales of their extraordinary beauty that lead to invasions of warring Vikings and Goths, and by 1550 B.C. lead Rome to Egypt drawn by Egypt’s wealth and the beauty of these people during the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom period of Egyptian history

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1550 BC

Chapter One -- When Lovers Meet

To catch the whirlwind and make it into a prince god was what she wanted.

So she prayed to the whirlwind to make her rise up to heaven to meet the wind man. A child from a union such as this, would be worthy of the name of Pharaoh of the Land of Egypt.

Egypt was always and will always be a land of mystery and enchantment. This story takes place in almost the beginning of Egyptian time in the ancient days. There was a pharaoh once, revered as a god in his own time, called Ahmose. And when this story begins, he was looking for a wife, and he meant to find one among his own people and among his own kind. Not even the flooding of the Nile kept him from this search.

The girl, Tishiba, was a young, seemingly frail ward of one of the pharaoh’s nobles. She came under the scrutiny of the pharaoh, and once their glances locked, fate drew them together and not even a sharp sword could come between them, no matter what.

This is their story. The pharaoh had eyes which held the mysteries of the ages. He could stretch out his hands and this meant instant death for a subject, but in his loins he ached for a woman to love and be a help-mate to him. He did not need another ruler, for he was one of a kind, but he wanted someone with fire to warm his body, and someone whose kisses would send sparks of living fire into his brain

He had been contented for years without such a thing, but he knew that even young pharaoh’s were not guaranteed a long life, so he set out looking over his vast kingdom for someone who would warm his heart and smell of perfume to his heart and make him smile and bring him children, and meanwhile he had the tomb of his afterlife built because he buried his first wife there, without child, barren to the end He believed in preparing these rich tombs and had left his workers there and came down the Nile in search of a bride

The Pharaoh had come on a barge, delayed slightly by the flooding of the Nile and the replanting of the grain fields nearby by slaves.

For the family, he brought presents of great merit, and presented these before the higher servants with pomp and ceremony representing their worth. Shortly before this, the mistress of the house found that one of her own rings had apparently been stolen. This was considered a bad omen and proved to the pharaoh even from the first meeting, that the aunt could be demoralizing in the extreme when the mood hit her and it was in full force as she tried to find the culprit who had stolen her jewelry.

The stolen item, of gold and precious gems, was worn most of the time by Cipiriah, and she had taken it off briefly because her fingers were swelling with pangs of child bearing. It was a black onyx ring of strange birds and mixed shades of onyx, black to deep purple, everyone had seen her wearing it; she had been hunting for it for sometime before she told her husband it was truly lost to her.

The ring bore the symbol of her ancient family, long of Thebes, and though distant, always of royalty, and now this important heirloom was missing from her chamber.

The family was grouped in an anti-room where normally only the most serious conversations of the family were held. To the aunt’s right, were her daughters, both of marriageable age, but unmarried at this point.

This was Vitam, the oldest daughter and fairest, who was placed close to her father, and then Tisbit She was thin and wore elegant clothing He hair was always so formally dressed that she truly outshined her younger sister in daintiness. But she was as rude and loud-mouthed as her mother, and lost her manners completely at the table when eating She was forwardly expressing her opinion about the loss of the jewelry to her father. Tisbit was known for shyness and this suited her well, for she was like a vapor, so light was she and thin, and she was little noticed because of the glamour of her mother and sister.

This interrogation had interrupted the plans of the family to entertain the pharaoh in a most pleasing way.

This household