Ancient Egypt in Romances

ANCIENT EGYPT

ROMANCES & EROTICA

Obstacles to true love, and the means to overcome them -- by willpower or a little bit of magic -- are older than the pyramids!

Ancient Egypt in Fiction Introduction & Home Page

Last updated: 1 June 2008

Titles, including translations, added within the last three months are noted.

The following romance and erotic novels, both straight and gay/lesbian, feature significant elements drawn from ancient, and most especially pharaonic, Egypt. Be aware that some of the books listed here are not suitable for all readers.

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ROMANCE	Ancient Setting
	Modern or Mixed Setting
	Paranormal
EROTICA	Ancient Setting
	Modern or Mixed Setting

**ROMANCE: Ancient Setting**
Adelson, Sandra *Wrap Her in Light: A Novel of Ankhesenamon* 1981: New York: William Morrow 1983 A daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti falls in love with a scribe.
Bell, Sallie L. *The Bond Slave* 1978: Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House Zoan, granddaughter of the pharaoh, falls in love with Caleb, a handsome Hebrew slave.
Busbee Jr., James *Son of Egypt* 1953: New York: Avon A soldier steals the king's bride.
French, Judith E. *The Barbarian* 2004: Dorchester Publishing Co. A woman with amnesia is told by King Ptolemy that she is an Egyptian aristorcrat, but the Kayan the Barbarian arrives in Alexandria, she is told dthat she is really the warrior princess Roxanne, widow of Alexander the Great. Sequel to The Conqueror. The Warrior 2005: Leisure Books A young man, betrothed to King Ptolemy's daughter Mereret, falls in love with a green-eyed slave girl named Kiara instead.
Harre, T. Everett *One Hour and Forever: The Story of a Woman and a Love Supreme* 1925: New York: Macaulay Co. A courtesan in Egypt during the days of Alexander the Great.
Leigh, Susannah *Wine of the Dreamers* 1980: Signet Destiny intertwines the lives of two beautiful women, one in ancient Egypt, the other in nineteenth century France.
Loffman, Anna *Istnofret* 2004: America House A peasant-girl becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great.
Lovelace, Merline *Lady of the Upper Kingdom* 1996: Harlequin Historical Greek Captain Philip Tauron yearns for the Egyptian Lady Farah, decreed by her birth to become an untouchable high priestess.
Lozano, Wendy *She Who Was King* 1980: New York: Ballantine Hatshepsut.
Makepeace, Joanna *The Chosen of the Gods* 1997: Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group/GK Hall Large Print Book Series *Daughter of Isis* 1969: Hurst & Blackett *Divine Son of Ra* 1997: GK Hall & Co. A blonde Midianite girl escapes slavery in Pharaoh's harem, but not before his child is conceived.
Roberts, Irene *Hatshepsut: the Feminine Pharaoh* 2003 *Kingdom of the Sun* Harlequin 2002: Diadem Books Enslaved in Egypt, a Persian princess becomes a pawn in a game of power played by Nefertiti. *A Song of the Nile* 2002: Writers Club Press Torn from her childhood sweetheart, Prince Khaleb, Nefer is forcibly married to the warrior Amosis -- and Nefer's former governess seeks to sacrifice her to the god Amun. *The Throne of the Pharaohs* 2002: Writers Club Press The story of Teti-sheri, a woman born a commoner but whose grandson Ahmose rid Egypt of the Hyksos and became pharaoh.
Robinson, Suzanne [= Robinson, Lynda S.] *Heart of the Falcon* 1990: New York: Bantam A dispossessed noblewoman, forced to masquerade as a commoner, finds herself drawn into romance and treachery with the seductive half-breed Count Seth, a close advisor of the king.
Stern, Susan *Desert Nights* 1991: Diamond/Berkeley An arrogant, golden-haired princess is given by her father to the king of Egypt.
Stout, Marilyn Kay *Asenath, Daughter of Egypt* Jennkay Ministries The daughter of a priest of Ra marries Pharaoh's vizier Joseph and struggles with questions of love and faith.
Trainer, Dixie Dean *Whirlwind of Desire* 1980: New York: Dell
Verrette, Joyce *Dawn of Desire* 1976: New York: Avon A prince and princess must overcome danger and intrigue to find passion. *Desert Fires* 1978: New York: Avon An Egyptian king named Ameni, the lovely Nefryaten, Troy, Atlantis. . . . *Sunrise of Splendor* 1978: New York: Fawcett Gold Medal Princess Sharula learns exotic arts of love so that Ramessa will raise her out of his harem as queen. *Winged Priestess* New York: Avon
Wynter, Gabrielle *Ershaf Amu* 2004: Anthena Press
Xenophon of Ephesus Ephesiaka (An Ephesian Romance) c. 200 CE Young newlyweds are taken as slaves and separated. They face dreadful perils in their attempts to remain true to each other and reunite.

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**ROMANCE: Modern or Mixed Setting**
Arnett, Caroline *Christina* 1988: New York: Ballantine The daughter of an archaeologist finds a half-dead handsome man named Sidi near the tomb where her father is excavating. Can Sidi be the same man as Kirby Derwent, an all-too-proper man she later meets in London? Regency.
Ashton, Elizabeth *Moonlight on the Nile* 1979: New York: Harlequin Presents
Bradley, Mary H. *The Fourtieth Door* 1920: New York: A. L. Burt Co. A young American archaeologist working in Egypt attends a costume ball, where he falls in love with a Turkish girl who has sneaked into the affair to escape the confines of her father, a high-ranking pasha.
Brandewyne, Rebecca *The Ninefold Key* 2004: Mira Books Members of the Ramsey family are haunted by a curse since a 17th century ancestor brought a scarab home from Egypt. Set in 1848.
Brockway, Connie *As You Desire* 1997: New York: Dell Desdemona Carlisle, a genius and expert in ancient languages, and her best friend Harry Braxton find danger and love in the Egyptian desert. Set in 1890.
Carr, Eleni *Play It Again* 1983: New York: Silhouette Special Edition In Egypt, Stacy faces an even greater mystery than any posed by the pyramids: love.
Cartland, Barbara *The Marquis who Hated Women* A woman who hates men needs help from a man who hates women to locate her lost archaeologist father in Egypt. *Moonlight on the Sphinx* 1984 *The River of Love* 1981: Pan In the shade of the temple of Luxor, the heroic Duke of Darleston finds the daughter of an ailing missionary and love that began millennia past.
Chaikin, Linda *Valiant Hearts* Arabian Winds 3 1998: Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah A British colonel is accused of smuggling priceless treasures out of Egypt during World War I, while the nurse who loves him must contend with a murder.
Chase, Loretta CARSINGTON BROTHERS 2 -- Mr. Impossible 2005: Berkley Sensation A man must help a scholarly widow rescue her brother, who has been kidnapped by a rival seeking a fabled treasure.
Collins, Laurel *Desert Enchantress* 1988: New York: St. Martin's In 1886, An American is not only courted by a British archaeologist who works in the Valley of the Kings but is kidnapped by a notorious bandit, too.
Cork, Dorothy *The Eye of the Sun* A trip to Egypt with the man she's fallen in love with puts Derry in the company of another man, too.
Dahlin, Betty *One Sandal for Alis* 1992: New York: Avalon Alis, who lives in Paris, gets a job as a tour leader in Cairo, where she meets a handsome Egyptologist. They envision a happy life but trouble lies ahead.
Dehart, Robyn *A Study in Scandal* 2006: New York: Avon When an Egyptian artifact goes missing from a private collection, the collector's daughter and her three friends, all members of the Ladies' Amateur Sleuth Society, go into real action.
Drake, Shannon *Reckless* 2005: Harlequin Kat Adair abandons London to follow her love, an Egyptologist, into the field. *Wicked* 2005 Camille must deal not only with the wicked Earl who has a fine collection of Egyptian antiquties (in which she is expert) but her father's desire to steal them.
Elliot, Elizabeth *Scoundrel* 1996: New York: Bantam Lady Lily Walters is a cryptographer in the war against Napoleon, and the Duke of Remmington becomes her protector.
Faith, Barbara *Beyond Forever* 1988: New York: Silhouette Catherine joins David's expedition to find the tomb of the mythical Queen Alifa, but will she discover romance instead?
Fields, Hillary *Marrying Jezebel* 2000 The daughter of an archaeologist is determined to follow in her father's footsteps, no matter what her handsome new guardian has in mind.
Finley, Glenna *Treasure of the Heart* 1971: New York: New American Library A strawberry blonde archaeologist serves as bait for a thief who has stolen ancient jewelry from a museum in London.
Ferguson, Jo Ann *A Primrose Wedding* 2005 Primrose "Rosie" Dunsworthy prefers contemplating hieroglyphs rather than marriage, but Rupert, who shares her interest and has a collection of antiquities, hopes to change her mind.
Gedney, Mona *A Scandalous Charade* 1994 Egyptologist Lord Redford (!) and Lady Sylvia Danville fall in and out of love.
Glyn, Elinor *His Hour* 1910 An English woman meets an arrogant stranger at the Sphinx, who later turns out to be a Russian prince.
Graham, Heather *Arabian Nights* A woman whose Egyptologist father has gone missing when on the verge of a great discovery, is swept into the protective arms of a journalist and film-maker who is determined to find him.
Greene, Marie *Captain Hawkins' Dilemma* Eliza Lytton prefers Egyptology to courtship, but she must marry to receive her inheritance.
Hill, Grace Livingston *The Chance of a Lifetime* 1931: New York: J. B. Lippincott Tyndale House/Living Books A man must choose between staying to tend his father's hardware business or accompanying a former professor on an dig in Egypt.
Hilz, Tammy *Beyond My Dreams* 2004: New York: Zebra The daughter of an adventurer leads a British earl to a treasure-filled royal tomb, menaced by Napoleon's forces. *Shadow of the Sun* 2004: New York: Kensington/Zebra The daughter of a wealthy (and dying) Englishman has to return a treasure to a royal tomb and discovers that her father's bitter enemy is on the same voyage.
Holt, Victoria *The Curse of the Kings* 1973: New York: Doubleday *1994: The Curse of the Kings and the India Fan: Diamond Books Omnibus Konyvkiadorp* translations: Polish *Klatwa Krolow* 1999: Warsaw: Proszynski i S-ka An heiress suspects a curse when a pair of archaeologists die mysteriously -- and wonders if her newly-wed archaeologist husband is going to be next.
Howard, Stephanie *The Pharaoh's Kiss* 1993: Harlequin Harriet is at once repulsed by and attracted to a devastatingly handsome archaeologist.
Hoy, Elizabeth *Shadows on the Sand* 1974: Harlequin A secretary signs up for a dig in Egypt.
Hunter, Elizabeth *The Sycamore Song* 1976: Harlequin Victoria is supposed to be supervising the Egyptian excavations of her late father, but the workers object to obeying a woman. Her father's assistant, Tariq, has a solution to this problem: Victoria can marry him!
Kay, Catherine *Dawn of Passion* 1982 Robyn, a PhD candidate in ancient languages, is deeply attracted to Egypt -- and to Sayed, the Egyptian archaeologist with whom she'll be working.
Kirk, Cynthia *The Lady and the Lion* 2001: Leisure Books The heart of an English archaeologist's passionate widow is stolen by an ill-reputed Welsh tomb-robber.
Kingsley, Katherine *Lilies on the Lake* As Portia embarks on an Egyptian adventure, she finds herself with a sick and pregnant traveling companion, and the powerful man who was her friend and protector during childhood.
Kloepfer, Marguerite *The Heart and the Scarab* 1981: New York: Avon A scarab holds the key to the mysterious deaths of Sue's parents, and Mahmoud holds the key to Sue's heart.
Lambert, Willa (= Maltese, William) *From This Beloved Hour* 1982: New York: Harlequin Superromance Two men vie for the love of one woman in the Egyptian desert.
Laurens, Stephanie *Devil's Bride* Cynster Family series 1998: New York: Avon A governess, determined to remain a spinster, has her plans for adventure among the pyramids thwarted by a dying young man she finds in the woods. Set in Regency England.
Lorimer, Norma *A Wife out of Egypt* 1913 A woman of Eastern European descent and Egyptological inclination finds herself married to a bland Englishman. She then meets an archaeologist with sympathies for Egyptian nationalism.
Mallet, Anne *The House on Eagle Ledge* 1973: Belmont Tower Books An Egyptian idol in a strange house.
McCabe, Helen *Tempestuous Sands* 1995: Leicester: F. A. Thorpe Pippa comes to Egypt to join her father's dig, where she meets not her boyfriend Mike but another man, Rik.
Mason, Connie *Seduced by a Rogue* An earl employed as a spy by the British government must charm the location of a precious amulet from a former lover whose father, an Egyptologist, has gone missing.
Poore, Dawn Aldridge *The Cairo Cats* Miss Sydney Regency Romance 3 1994: New York: Zebra Someone is after Miss Sidney's ancient Egyptian cat statues, and she and her handsome boarder are determined to get to the bottom of it. *The Mummy's Mirror* Miss Sydney Regency Romance 4 1995: New York: Zebra Against the advice of her handsome renter, Roxanne Sydney goes to Egypt with her female companion, her butler, and her mastiff, and finds herself the subject of rumors that she holds the key to a hidden treasure. Regency. *The Secret Scroll* Miss Sydney 2 New York: Zebra
Power, Jo-Ann *Treasures* 1996 A Regency spinster, whose late father is suspected of being involved with the theft of a priceless Egyptian papyrus, must enlist the aid of the man who left her at the altar.
Sala, Sharon *Remember Me* A husband finds his wife, missing for two years and presumed murdered, asleep in their bed, with an Egyptian symbol tatooed behind her ear. Who kidnapped her -- and why was she returned?
Simmons, Suzanne *Desert Rogue* 1992: New York: Avon Lady Elizabeth Guest accompanies her father in search of ancient treasure. Lord Jonathon Wicke is determined to seduce her to prevent further desecration of the tombs of the pharaohs. *A Lady of Distinction* 2004: Berkley A woman scholar of Egyptology, who must content herself with studying her father's collection, finds herself attracted to a notorious adventurer. Regency.
Sinclair, Tracy *Flight to Romance* Silhouette Despite her reluctance, Jennifer accompanies a wealthy Egyptian industrialist back to Egypt for the sake of her career.
Sizemore, Suzan *The Price of Passion* 2001: New York: Avon A man tries to rekindle romance with the daughter of the archaeologist who, a decade before in 1868, found the tomb of Alexander the Great in Egypt. A secret society conspires to reclaim the treasures now in a museum.
Smith, Bobbi *Heaven* 1995: New York: Kensington Books In search of a fabled cursed jewel in Egypt, the daughter of a famous archaeologist becomes entangled with an Englishman disguised as a priest and an American adventurer.
Spicer, Dorothy *Desert Adventure* 1968: New York: Avalon A woman suffers a change in fortune after her mother's death.
Steele, Jessica *First Time for Everything* 1990: Harlequin
Stevens, Amanda *The Dreaming* 1987: New York: Harlequin/Silhouette Intimate Moments A busy doctor takes a vacation in Egypt, where she finds romance and danger among the ruins.
Vanak, Bonnie *The Cobra & the Concubine* An Englishman who lives with Saharan nomads goes by the name of Khepri, "the cobra" (sic).
Way, Margaret *The Cattle Baron* 2001: New York: Harlequin Super Romance 2001: Don Mills, Ontario Harlequin SuperRomance A woman reporter travels to a rich man's ranch in North Queensland, Australia, to investigate rumors of a Egyptian artifacts.
Wentworth, Sally *Duel in the Sun* Harlequin Catriona lies to get an archaeological job in Egypt and, entangled with an arrogant boss and a handsome Egyptian businessman, begins to regret her actions.
Willingham, Bess *The Lady's Mummy* 1997: New York: Zebra Regency An Egyptologist who owns the mummy of a pharaoh's wife is asked by a man whom she blames for a past tragedy to recover the stolen mummy of the pharaoh.
Winston, Ann Marie *Pyramid of Lies* 2003: New York: Harlequin A brilliant Egyptologist, more successful in the field than in romance, is tracked down by a private investigator because her alleged "long-lost father" wants to meet her.
Wolff, Victoria *And Seven Shall Die...: a novel of live and adventure in modern Egypt* 1943: London: Hammond & Co. A Russian exile becomes an Egyptologist's secretary. Source indicates it is translated by Dora H. Demuth (presumably from German?).
Wolman, David *Whispers on the Nile* 1983: New York: Dell An Englishwoman with a hidden past is lured by a dangerous Coptic woman into the City of the Dead, from which only the man who loves her dares rescue her. Set in the 1880s.

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ROMANCE: Paranormal

Alfonsi, Alice
Eternal Sea
Egyptian magic gone awry traps a man's soul on earth.

Arwen, Aysel
A Pharaoh, a Spell and Jade: a passionate tale
2006: Capri
An passion for Egyptian jewelry causes Jade Morgan to travel back in time, where she is a godsend to those trying to undo the assassination of Pharaoh Sneferu.

Austin, Lena
The God's Wife
2005: Stow, Ohio: Cerridwen Press
Hatshepsut finds herself not merely a king's wife but the king herself. There are those who would murder her, and her son, and challenge her relationship with the commoner Senmut, and among them are the inhuman nobles of Egypt.

Azel, Anne
"Egyptian Encounters"
2001: Encounters by Anne Azel: Renaissance Alliance
A modern lesbian couple helps their ancient ancestors achieve happiness.

Bailey, Lynn
Splendid You
In 1848, a self-taught Egyptologist finds herself being helped by An-ket, the newly-awakened spirit of a Twelfth Dynasty princess, to win the chauvinistic Egyptologist she loves.

Barrett, Victoria
Maybe This Time
Two souls who have been romancing each other since the days of the pharaohs meet again in modern-day USA. Will a magic amulet with the ability for time travel help them stay together forever?

Bicos, Olga
Wrapped in Wishes
1996: New York: Zebra
A woman undergoing hypnotherapy for insomnia finds herself back in 1882, inhabiting the body of another woman. She attracts the attention of an Egyptologist-turned-ghost-hunter who is trying to contact his dead brother.

Blair, Catherine
"The Black Kitten"
2000: Magical Kittens: Zebra Regency
Lord Jonathan Griffith bets that by All Hallows' Eve he can win the hand of the woman whose Egyptian antiquities he covets.

Burnes, Caroline
Familiar Mirage
Fear Familiar Desert Mysteries Series
Harlequin Intrigue
Beth Bradshaw and her Egyptian guide search for the lost cities of Ra and Con. The guide knows more about those cities than he's willing to ever let his employer know, but Beth's cat Familiar is going to make sure everything works out.

Chopin, Kate
"An Egyptian Cigarette" NEW 4/08
1897: Vogue
Smoking a strange cigarette causes a woman to experience the life of an ancient Egyptian woman who sacrifices belief in her gods for her lover, who then leaves her.

Darby, Catherine
Cobweb across the Moon
Moon Chalice Quest 5
Popular Library
An American woman lays claim to Ladymoon Manor.
The Flaunting Moon
Moon Chalice Quest 3
Popular Library
A young woman discovers the Moon Chalice at Ladymoon Manor.
Frost on the Moon
Moon Chalice Quest 2
Popular Library
Two girls stolen and raised by gypsies escape their captors in 17th century England.
Moon in Pisces
Moon Chalice Quest 6
1978: Popular Library
An orphan girl falls victim to the Egyptian chalice at Ladymoon Manor.
Sing Me a Moon
Moon Chalice Quest 4
Popular Library
A young woman learns terrible secrets about her parents and her lover at Ladymoon Manor.
Whisper Down the Moon
Moon Chalice Quest 1
1977: Popular Library
The Moon Chalice is a magical sacred cup made in ancient Egypt. A Roman soldier brought it to Britain, to a place later called Ladymoon Manor. The fate of three women are tied with it.

Darling, Julia
Crocodile Soup
Egyptologist Gert falls in love with cafeteria-worker Eva. While trying to win her, Gert looks back on an eccentric childhood when she communicated telepathically with her twin brother, her father vanished while trying to save the family crocodile farm, and a Victorian poet haunted the attic.

du Pont, Diane
The Emerald Embrace
1980: New York: Fawcett Gold Medal
An Egyptian necklace has "strange, erotic power" and connects two pairs of lovers separated by centuries.

Eann, Dimitri
Etched in Stone
2000: Hickory Corners, Michigan: ImaJinn Books
An Egyptologist finds herself swept back to ancient Egypt, inhabiting the body of an evil queen intent upon killing the handsome King Amony.

Erskine, Barbara
"A Legacy of Isis"
2003: The Sands of Time, Barbara Erskine: London: Harpercollins
A sequel to Whispers in the Sand. Louisa Shelley is still haunted by the magic of Roger Carstairs and the artifact she posseses.
"The Sands of Time"
2003: The Sands of Time, Barbara Erskine: London: Harpercollins
A sequel to Whispers in the Sand. Anna is drawn back into the past.
Whispers in the Sand
Anna Coburn tries to forget her divorce by retracing the Nile cruise made by her great-grandmother, but an heirloom perfume bottle (containing tears of Isis) raises the same ancient ghosts that haunted her grandmother, Louisa.

Frank, J. Suzanne
Reflections in the Nile
1997: New York: Warner
1999: New York: Time Warner

translations:
German:
Die Prophetin von Luxor

An American artist, Chloe Kingsly, finds herself trapped in the body of a scheming Egyptian priestess during the reign of Hatshepsut.
Shadows on the Aegean
1998: New York: Time Warner
In the advanced, decadent Aegean civilization of Aztlan, Chloe Kingsly finds herself in the body of Sibylla the prophetess, and she once again meets her lover, this time as an Egyptian physician. Sequel to Reflections in the Nile.
Sunrise on the Mediterranean

Grey, Belinda
Daughter of Isis
1981: London: Mills & Boon/Masquerade Historical
Having returned home to Wales from Egypt, a Victorian woman discovers that her deceased father had given her the clue to an ancient tomb.

Hall, Judy
Torn Clouds: a novel of reincarnation and romance
forthcoming: O Books

Harris, Elizabeth
Shadows in the Sand NEW 4/08
1994: Avon
A young woman goes looking for a relative who vanished in Egypt a century before.

Harrison, Don
The Alexandrian Drachma
1984: Pound Ridge, NY: Knights Press
A search for the Egyptian tomb of Alexander the Great in 1831 leads two men to a magical coin and passionate love.

Hylton, Sara.
The Talisman of Set
1984: New York: St. Martin's Press
A well-born young English woman, who has fallen in love with a man who doesn't meet her grandmother's approval, is haunted by dreams of a past life in Egypt and is given an evil talisman.

Keaton, Julia
Conclave of Shadows
2006: Lake Park, Georgia: New Concepts Publishing

Kerska, Joseph W.
The Mummy's Kiss
Xlibris
An Egyptologist/martial artist/divorcé discovers that a lightning strike has cloned the DNA of "Mir-eh, Princess of Thebes," so he takes her home. To escape his alimony trouble they flee to Egypt, where they are transported back to ancient times.

Kirk, Diana
Song of Isis
While investigating how an ancient Egyptian had a modern medical procedure performed upon him, Alexandria finds a magic scroll that transports her back in time and right into the arms of the handsome chief physician of the pharaoh Mentuhotep.

Leslie, Lynn
Night of the Nile
Harlequin Intrigue
1994: Harlequin
In search of her twin brother, a woman encounters a strange man with searing blue eyes and knowledge of ancient ritual.

Lorimer, Norma
There Was a King in Egypt
1919: New York: Brentano's
undated (c. 1920): London: Stanley Paul and Co.
The spirit of Akhenaten appears to a woman.

Michaels, Lynn
Nightwing
1995: Harlequin Temptation
A woman refuses to sell the estate she has inherited to Dr. Raven, who, having been attacked by a powerful Egyptian undead, is now a vampire.

Mueller, Jennifer
(UNTITLED SERIES)
1 -- Egyptian Nights
2005: Linden Bay Romance
A murdered women finds that the gods have placed her in the body of an ancient Egyptian priest's wife, who has just died in childbirth.

2 -- Egyptian Days NEW 10/07
2007: Linden Bay Romance
Four years after Egyptian Nights, murder brings to light that not everything was perfect for Kheamhat and his wife.

Pita, Maria Isabel
Dreams of Anubis
2003: Magic Carpet Books
A legal secretary fascinated by ancient Egypt travels with a friend who is to photograph the tomb of Imhotep, where she meets the Egyptologist of her dreams -- and a priest of Anubis in her dreams.

Shannon, Colleen
Catspell
Shelly Holmes mystery 3
2006: Love Spell
A Victorian psychic investigator takes on the case of a young woman whose strange malady might be connected to the Egyptian cat amulet she wears.

Shayne, Maggie
Destiny
2001
The immortal Egyptian High Witch Nidaba has been pursued by Dark Witches for millennia.

Shults, Sylvia
Golden Horus: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
2000: Xlibris
An historical romance writer finds Tutankhamen, who has stumbled into the present day. She helps him return, but can she bear to let him go?

Simpson, Patricia
The Dark Lord
2004: New York: Tor
Rae has brought back a dangerous pack of tarot cards as a souvenir of an Egyptian vacation, and one of its spirits has turned one of the men in Rae's life into the Dark Lord of the Forbidden Tarot.
The Lost Goddess
1995
A beautiful Egyptian and the archaeologist she loves brave the threats of an ancient cult.

Squires, Susan
The Companion
2005: New York: St. Martin's Press
A very independent woman archaeologist, half Egyptian and half English, meets a man who carries an evil contagion in his blood. Regency setting and vampires.

Stewardson, Dawn
The Mummy Beads
Voice of the Nile
Harlequin Intrigue
An ancient Egyptian princess tells a woman that her dead lover is alive and well.
The Mummy Case
Voice of the Nile
1994: Harlequin Intrigue
An Egyptian princess demands the return of her stolen coffin, which investigator Marina Haine finds it now contains a murder victim.

Stowe, Tanya
Time's Embrace
1993 Rhapsody Romance/Starlog Communications International
Mara, who has memories of a previous life, finds herself transported from Los Angeles to the court of Akhenaten, where she is now a servant.

Vanak, Bonnie
The Falcon and the Dove
2002: Leisure
A soldier and the king's wife are in love, and, as a woman visiting the excavations at Amarna in 1892 discovers, not even death and the passage of more than three thousand years can separate them.
The Tiger and the Tomb
2003: Leisure
The curator of the Giza Museum blackmails an English woman who is betrothed to an Egyptian who guards the tombs of his pharaonic ancestors to steal a map. Set in 1893.

Weyrich, Becky Lee
Sands of Destiny
1996
A crystal pyramid propels Pia Byrd back to ancient times and into the arms of Darius.

Willman, Marianne
The Enchanted Mirror
1999: New York: St. Martin's
A mirror once belonging to Cleopatra reflects the fate of a married English woman and the man she loves, who goes to Egypt on a dig. Set in the Regency period.

Wood, Barbara
Soul Flame
Selene, a young healer, travels in search of the surgeon she loves, visiting, among other centers of the ancient world, Roman Egypt.

Yorke, Erin
Yesterday and Tomorrow
1987: Cardinal
Set at the excavation of Amarna in 1935.

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EROTICA: Ancient Setting

Appolonius of Gotham (pseudonym)
The Loves of Cleopatra; or, Mark Anthony and His Concubines: a historical tale of the Nile
1860: New York

Blottière, Alain
Si-Amonn [French]
1998: Paris: Mercure de France
A young priest of Amonn falls in love with Alexander the Great after a brief contact with him. He becomes a slave and prostitute.

Boccaccio, Giovanni
Amorous Fiametta (translated by Edward Hutton)
1931: New York: Rarity Press
A tale of Fiametta, who encounters Venus and other Greek gods; among her adventures, she becomes queen of Egypt.

Buck, Mitchell S.
Afterglow: Pastels of Greek Egypt 69 B.C.
1924: New York: Nicholas L. Brown (illus. by Felix)
An erotic fantasy of courtesans, priests, and more. Includes a lengthy preface by Arthur Machen.

Challlis, Rosanna
Flail of the Pharaoh
2004: Waterlooville (UK): Chimera
Envy sets in when King Seti's wife, Queen Mira, is rivaled by a Nordic slave named Charmian, but feelings change when the priest Tut-Tut kidnaps Charmian.

Corday, Carly
Forgotten Lore
2000: Clemmons, NC: Renaissance E Book
2002: Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse/Writers Club Press
A virgin priestess of pre-Druidic Britain escapes mortal sacrifice when she is captured by a handsome, dark marauder from decadent predynastic Egypt.

Elliot, Ben
Gladiator School
2000
Paris, a young runaway and the romantic object of a wealthy Egyptian, is sold to a school for gladiators in Pompeii in the last first century A.D.

Gabriel, Reese
Prisoner of Shera-Sa
2005: Ellora's Cave
An archaeologist seeking the lost ruins of of a city more ancient than Egypt runs into her former lover.

Grahame, Kendal
Pyramid of Delights
A sexually-charged soldier is determined to learn the erotic secrets within the golden pyramid.

Hastings, Juliet
The Hand Of Amun
London: Black Lace
Pandora's Box 3: London: Black Lace (excerpt)
The daughter of a village scribe is marked to become a servant of Amun.

Louys, Pierre
Aphrodite
1896
Undated (c. 1920): Paris: Rombaldi
Undated (c. 1920s-1930s): New York: Halcyon House
Both Queen Berenike and a courtesan fall in love with a Greek sculptor who falls in love with a statue of the goddess of love.

Markham, Phillip
The Love of Old Egypt
1999: Buccaneer
A gigilo aboard a Nile cruise ship dreams of being dominated by the kings of Egypt and becomes involved with the Khalid. Set in 1925.

Marsche, Daniel Tegan
The Eunuch Neferu
2002
A Roman officer takes a half-Hebrew/half-Egyptian peasant boy to live with him in Alexandria in 23 BC.

Sailing, Jasmine
"Of Waxen Figures and Screaming Tombs"
1998: The Mammoth Book of Historical Erotica, ed. Maxim Jakubowski: London: Robinson; New York: Carroll & Graf (pp. 299-320)
Set during the reign of Rameses III.

Summers, Jordan
"Tears of Amun"
2003: The Portal, Jaid Black, Jordan Summers, Treva Harte: Ellora's Cave
A woman who has fallen in love with the ancient image of an Egyptian man finds herself thrown back in time, where she meets him face to face.

Tatius, Achilles
Leukippe and Kleitophon (translated from Greek)
No Date (c. 450)
Young lovers flee to Egypt so that they can be wed, but are shipwrecked, captured by Delta bandits, and separated.

Townsend, Larry
Beware The God Who Smiles
1971: San Diego: Greenleaf
Two gay American men go back in time to ancient Egypt and are enslaved by rampaging barbarians.

Van Heller, Marcus
The Loins of Amon
1967: Brandon House
1994: Unbound - Two Celebrated Novels from the Master of Erotic Realism
Sex, slaves, and a donkey show?

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EROTICA: Modern or Mixed Setting

Arsan, Emmanuelle
Vanna [French]
1979: Paris: Belfond

translations:
English:
Vanna
1995: London; Diamond
German:
Vanna
1980: Reinbek. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag

Vanna guides Guido on an exploration of Egyptian love.

Cilescu, Valentina
The Phallus of Osiris
1993: Headline
Erotic novel, with a vampire. Sequel to The Kiss of Death.

Curlovich, John Michael
The Blood of Kings
2005: Los Angeles: Alyson Publications
A gay sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh audits a class taught by an Egyptologist who not only takes a more than professional interest in his student but who also heads a cult of ancient kings.

Ellis, Madelynne
Passion of Isis
2005: Virgin
A handsome man, ambitious woman Egyptologist searching for an important piece of an erotic tomb painting at Saqqara, and a charismatic sex-cult leader.

Garber, Esther (= Lee, Tanith)
34
Esther, a young Englishwoman who finds herself in Paris and mistaken for a prostitute, seeks the woman-disguised-as-a-man with whom she has fallen in love. Includes memories of past life in Egypt, and an appearance by Isis.

Hollander, Xaviera
The Kiss of the Serpent
Golden Phallus of Osiris 2
Diamond Erotica
Grafton
A pop singer and her football-playing boyfriend smuggle the golden phallus of Osiris out of Africa.
The Prisoner of the Firebird
Golden Phallus of Osiris 3
Diamond Erotica
Grafton
The sect of Isis manage to reunite the dismembered members of Osiris, but the result may be the destruction of manhood throughout the country of Salamba.
Yours Fatally
Golden Phallus of Osiris 1
1995: Grafton
In an imaginary African country, an American mining engineer who has a dominatrix finds part of dismembered enormous sold-gold statue of Osiris.

LaCroix, Marianne
SANDS OF SEDUCTION
1 -- Lady Sheba
2003: Extasybooks (e-book)
2006: Ellora's Cave (revised)
A museum employee, descendent of an Egyptian priestess of the cat-goddess, has inherited the Powers of the Cat and lusts after her boss, who becomes possessed by the Evil One.

Michaels, Jess
"Ancient Pleasures" NEW 4/08
2004: Secrets 11: Red Sage
In 1897, a woman and a sexy American are trapped in the cursed tomb of an Egyptian concubine.

Reynolds, Don
Summer of the Satyr
1973: New York: Orpheus Classics/Carlyle Communications
A woman traveling alone in Egypt meets a mystious and passionate Egyptian.

Sims, Ciarra
Felidae
2005: Ellora's Cave
Half-human/half-cat and descendents of the ancient Egyptians, some of the Felidae, like Tabitha Fenwick, try to fit into human society, especially sexually.

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Ancient Egypt in Fiction Introduction
What the AEF is and how to help.

Ancient Egypt in Fiction Author List Introduction

Ancient Egypt in Fiction Author List A-F

Ancient Egypt in Fiction Author List G-L

Ancient Egypt in Fiction Author List M-R

Ancient Egypt in Fiction Author List S-Z
The Author Lists are complete listings of every novel and story in the bibliography, alphabetically by author, with links to each work in the category pages.

Category and Sub-Category Index

Ancient Egypt in Science Fiction & Fantasy
From time travel to sword & sorcery, from aliens to alternate history, and everything in between.

Ancient Egypt in Historical & Mainstream Fiction
The Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and Napoleon, too: scholarly research optional but magic checked at the door.

Ancient Egypt in Biblical Fiction
From Joseph to the Flight into Egypt.

Ancient Egypt in Mysteries & Thrillers
Pharaohs are assassinated, Egyptologists murdered, treasures lost. Whodunnit? In ancient times and modern, there is always a sleuth near at hand.

Ancient Egypt -- Miscellaneous Fiction
All those things that belong elsewhere on the list -- or might belong off the list altogether.