Short Synopsis
New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small pens an extraordinary tale of passion and history, sweeping listeners back to fifth-century Britain and Constantinople, where battles of love and war are fought with equal skill and voracity—and victory is savored with sweetest pleasure. Contains mature themes.

Full Synopsis
Beautiful, headstrong, and defiant, Cailin Drusus possesses the pride of her Celtic-born mother, though she has been reared amid her Roman father's wealth and privilege. When Cailin's family is destroyed and their farmland seized, she marries Wulf Ironfist, a Saxon of enormous strength and power—a gentle giant who opens the door to a world of heady sensuality. But her happiness is short-lived. For an unknown enemy drugs her as she labors in childbirth—and she awakens to find herself sold to a slave merchant and transported to Byzantium, not knowing what happened to her child . . .

Contains mature themes.