![]() ![]() “What a great book!…one of the best things I’ve read in months and months. Quinn is a remarkable new talent.” - Kate Furnivall, author of The Girl from Junchow A deeply passionate love story, tender and touching, in the heat and danger of the brutal arena that was Ancient Rome. ![]() She skillfully intertwines the private lives of her characters with huge and shocking events. She gives us a wonderful and intensely emotional spectacle, full of sound and fury. “Kate Quinn is a mistress of storytelling. This should make a splash among devotees of ancient Rome.” - Publishers Weekly Readers will finish eager for a sequel, which is a good thing because Quinn has left the door wide open for a follow-up. … Quinn’s command of first-century Rome is matched only by her involvement with her characters all of them, historical and invented, are compelling and realistic, and she explores their dark sides without crossing into gratuitousness. “Quinn convincingly conjures the terrifying reign of Emperor Domitian in her solid debut that follows the travails of Thea, a slave girl and mistress to the emperor. ![]()
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