In a girl’s daydreams and romantic body-soap operas, the limit of dreams is to marry a sultan and ascend the throne of the Sublime Porte. In reality, there’s no more dangerous place than the harem and the palace, and the legendary reign of Roxelana was neither cloudless nor tranquil. If your husband-sultan is gravely ill and the doctors have already lost hope of his recovery; if a dangerous impostor has appeared in the north, proclaiming himself the heir to the throne; if the court is weaving criminal conspiracies; if death threatens your sons—then Roxelana the Beautiful turns into Roxelana the Terrible! She will crush the uprising, pull her husband back from the other world, and protect her children from hired killers! She will save her love—and the Ottoman Empire as well! She will prove she deserves to be the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent and will earn the honored title of Roxelana the Great!