Ann Chamberlin is the international bestselling author of ten historical novels and a nonfiction history of women in the Middle East. She also writes plays, including Jihad, which was named Best New Off-Off Broadway play of 1996.
Sofia, the first book in The Reign of the Favored Women trilogy, caused a sensation in Turkey where it spent over six months on the bestseller list. Real historical figures come to life in the exotic sixteenth-century Ottoman world of intrigue and opulence. An ambitious young noblewoman from Venice, captured by corsairs and sold into the Sultan's harem, vows her future will hold more than sexual slavery. And a young man who sets out to rescue her is asked to pay a price higher than any man can afford.
