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Mercies: A Novel of Magic, Medicine, and Faith in Ancient Egypt
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 28 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Egypt, 831 AD. In a village gripped by fear, the line between healer and con man has never been thinner.
For six years, the magician Tariq has ruled his village from a tent of dyed silk and bronze bells, selling cures for diseases he invents, blessings that cost more than they deliver, and a god of his own making. His followers trust him completely. What they don't know is that the herbs curing them are often the same ones poisoning them.
Then Ammar, a desperate trader whose wife has miscarried twice with no explanation, crosses the desert to Jordan and returns with something Tariq has never had to compete against: the truth. Sikandar, a physician trained to ask why instead of simply promising relief, arrives asking questions no one in the village has ever thought to ask - about lime hidden in medicine, about a rash that spreads with suspicious precision, about a sleeping draught given to a young woman until she forgot her own name.
As Sikandar's evidence mounts, Tariq and his fiercely loyal partner Rizwana fight to protect everything they've built - first with whispered fear, then with poison, then with a lie that costs an innocent man his life. What follows is a reckoning neither side can walk away from clean: a public confession, a murder that can't stay hidden, and a village forced to choose between the comfort of belief and the harder work of understanding.
Mercies is a story about the seductive power of certainty, the cost of easy answers, and what it takes for a fraud to become, however imperfectly, honest - a richly researched historical novel set against the real Bashmur uprising, where science and superstition collide, and mercy, when it finally comes, is never free.
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