Women of Power - Book Two - Enheduanna

High Priestess Enheduanna – daughter of the late Sargon the Great – is tasked with finding suitable candidates to vie for the position of Empress of Akkad. Her nephew King Naram-Suen is soon to be elevated to the position of "God of Akkad", and only a princess of the highest order may bear his official heirs. Princess Attarah of Ebla is statuesque and hunts and sculpts and recites erotic poetry in fluent Akkadian. Princess Arbisi of Nineveh is exceptionally beautiful and sings and runs great distances and is a devout religionist who is both a Virgin and a virgin. Princess Pinikiro of Elam is an orator and a warrior and a judge and a lesbian. Enheduanna discovers the benefits of ingeniously sculpted anatomically accurate substitutional devices. Bishop Sagadu plays favourites and tries to influence the outcome of the contest. Naram-Suen plays a roleplay that earns him the adulation of a future mother-in-law and her coterie of high-born Elamite ladies. Princess Arbisi commits a sin of the flesh that causes her fiancé to spill his seed upon the ground and sets her on the path to future veneration and legendary status. King Little Sister has his demons exorcised after failing to banish a foreign prophet and a serpent that was devouring a tree which had suddenly sprung up outside the walls of Nineveh. Princess Attarah hopes that honest love and loyalty will play a greater role in the selection process than outward beauty or politics. All the princesses are outstanding candidates but only one can become Empress of Akkad. Which one will it be …?