Gates of Bliss

From a simple concubine, she became the sultan’s beloved wife once and for all, winning his heart. She rose from the harem to the palace, giving Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent a successor to the throne. She had to renounce her Slavic name—Roxolana—becoming Hürrem, which translates as “cheerful,” “laughing,”—but behind her beautiful smile lie a razor-sharp mind and steel will. For the truth is this: beside the throne is death, and the “Gates of Bliss” (“Bab-us-saade,” as the sultan’s harem was called) are smeared with poison. And to keep Suleiman’s love and win in the palace “battles without rules,” where the stakes are not only her own head but also the lives of her children, the Russian beauty will have to become a genius of harem intrigues—defeat thousands of rivals, and challenge the all-powerful vizier who once was madly in love with her and now is ready to do anything, just to get revenge for his unrequited passion…

Read the new love-and-history novel about the luxurious, sensual, and bloody era of Suleiman the Magnificent and his Slavic wife! If you watch the popular TV series “THE MAGNIFICENT CENTURY” and want to know what it was really like, this book is for you!