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Dear Ms. Iverson,
This turned out to be a lucky gamble book. And what made it even longer odds that I picked it up to try is that all I initially saw on the shelf at Waldenbooks was the spine. Let’s hear it for great cover/spine artwork. Yes, publishers, it really can sell your books. And for those interested, it’s also available as an ebook. And damn, it’s got a great UK cover as well.
After the wild Picts attacked her family’s farm near of Hadrian’s Wall, Rhyddes’s life quickly goes from being difficult to unbearable. Her father has always hated her but Rhyddes never thought he would take the opportunity of increased Roman taxes to get rid of her. She quickly finds herself sold as a slave, brutalized by the soldiers who deliver her to the slaver in Londinium then bought by Jamil, an Egyptian lanista who hopes that adding a female to his troop of gladiators will pay off his enormous investment in her.
Marcus Calpurnius Aquila doesn’t care that his career in the arena scandalizes his father, the Roman governor of Britannia. This is what he loves doing and Marcus knows …
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