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The Sun at Twilight
N.L. Holmes, author
Blurb: In the twilight years of the Hittite Empire (1230s BC), Tudhaliya IV comes to the
throne as a usurper's younger son, determined to rule according to the traditional values
of justice and clemency, despite the harder advice of his ambitious mother and his
questionably loyal older brothers. When his cousin Kurunta, with whom he was raised
as someone dearer than a brother, decides his own claim to the throne is stronger than
Tudhaliya's, the latter must decide whether to apply the brutal pragmatism of his
advisors or risk appearing weak, and how to manage to leave his own son an empire
that is finally free from civil war. The cost will be the sacrifice of his deepest friendship.