A noblewoman in early Britain, a slave in exotic Byzantium, she would always be a magnificent creature of love and destiny. 

RELEASED: 1993

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN/ON: Paperback, Hardback and Audio

 

She would ride her fiery passions from the troubled past into a shining tomorrow...

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Britain, AD 453. Beautiful, headstrong, and defiant, Cailin Drusus possesses the strength and 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, Cailin seeks refuge with her aging, bitter grandfather, chieftain of the Dobunni. There, Cailin marries Wulf Ironfist, a Saxon of enormous strength and power, a gentle giant who opens the door to a world of heady sensuality. With Wulf by her side, she regains the lands stolen from her family. But her happiness is short lived. An unknown enemy drugs her as she labors in childbirth. She awakes to find herself sold to a slave merchant and transported to Byzantium, not knowing what happened to her child...

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Legendary for her sensual novels of faraway places teeming with adventure and intrigue, Bertrice Small once again pens an extraordinary tale of passion and history, sweeping readers back to fifth century Britain and Constantinople. They are lands ruled by sword and fire, seeped in danger and fraught with turmoil, where battles of love and war are fought with equal skill and voracity--and victory savored with sweetest pleasure...