The dawn of the lotus

Babi A. Sette's long-awaited new novel, Dawn of the Lotus, captivates readers with a captivating story about the search for freedom and true love in Ancient Egypt.

Egypt, 1283 BC. Within the Hebrew quarter lives Zarah, a young woman who dreams of freedom and better days for her people. Saved from an attack by Ramose, an Egyptian commander, she becomes embroiled in a game of seduction and is swept away by a forbidden passion.

Ramose is the enemy, but he holds in his hands the promise of a better life not only for herself but also for her people. Turning her back on the customs and welcome of her people and on her life with David, her best friend, Zarah chooses the possibility of a great love and ends up surrendering to an intense and obsessive passion, in which desire, jealousy, and possession intertwine.

Now, to rewrite her story, Zarah will have to embark on a journey back to her essence and discover how far she is capable of going in search of freedom and true love.

"With a surprising setting and painfully real characters, Babi A. Sette intrigues, shocks, and moves the reader in such a way that, by the end, our hearts overflow with a wide range of emotions. The power behind this novel captivates the reader within its pages, but also frees them in countless ways. After all, despite being a love story, the plot presents us with the most precious kind of love we can find: the one we learn to feel for ourselves." - Paola Aleksandra, author of Free to Start Over

"Unlike anything I've read by Babi A. Sette, but with her unmistakable brand of creating strong, sensitive, and captivating stories. A journey to Ancient Egypt in an intense plot, filled with passion, seduction, jealousy, intrigue, and renunciation, in the forbidden romance between an Egyptian commander and a Hebrew woman." - Anne Marck, author of the Protectors trilogy

"In her most disparate work, Babi A. Sette makes light and shadow the main ingredients of the plot—components that, not coincidentally, are also part of the very essence of humanity. I immersed myself in this journey with Zarah and made her mistakes, only to, in the end, feel the warmth of the dawn that Babi's words always have the power to evoke." - Aione Simões, author of A Leap for Love

“With an original and surprising work, Babi A. Sette takes us on a journey of surrender and discovery, in which the barriers between the deepest feelings of the human heart dissolve like grains of sand in the desert.” - Deborah Strougo, author of The Invention of Us Two

Not recommended for children under 18 years of age.