Excerpted from THE SHROUDED QUEEN by Ashley Tropea. Copyright © 2026 by Ashley Tropea. Reprinted by permission of Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC. The Shrouded Queen by Ashley Tropea is a romantasy debut inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology, featuring a slave and a princess who switch places during an enemy attack, leading to parallel journeys of survival, romance, and discovering divine powers. The story follows slave Samira, who is forced to impersonate