Note: The version I read was an earlier one sent to DA by Mrs. Meador.
Dear Mrs. Meador,
When you sent DA a file of your new book “The Centurion and the Queen,” I was a happy camper. Though it’s beginning to be used more as a setting for romance books, stories set in ancient Rome and Roman Britain were once few and far between. I could never figure out why since the time offers strong warriors, strong women and lots of chances for conflict between the two. Maybe the HBO series “Rome” has opened some doors here.
The story starts off with a bang. In the aftermath of a skirmish between his well trained century and a group of the local barbarians, Centurion Marius Markus Lardanium spies Delia, Queen of the Corieltauvi lurking in the forest watching. His immediate response just seems so guy and so Roman: to get this native woman in his bed. After all, Rome has now conquered this ghastly outcrop of an island and it shouldn’t be too hard to get what he wants. He’s the conqueror and she’s one of the conquered. Or so he …
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