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Dear Ms Owens Malek,
Are you still writing? I hope so but haven’t seen anything new from you in ages. You’ve got me worried. I guess until I learn otherwise, I’ll have to just keep re-reading your OOP books.
This is a dual ‘against all odds’ romance. Two sisters love men who are completely forbidden to them. Julia Rosalba Casca was dedicated as a Vestal Virgin on her 10th birthday by her power greedy grandfather. She’s now 17 and resigned to her fate until the day she helps the Chief Vestal make alterations to Julius Caesar’s will and sees the handsome Centurion with him. Marcus Corvin Demeter feels like Jove’s thunderbolt smacked him down when he sees Julia and knows he has to meet her again. But romantically pursuing a Vestal will lead to death, both for him and, in a more horrible way, for her for betraying the sacred trust of the Roman people.
With the help of her sister Larthia, the two begin to secretly meet. But this isn’t the only thing that Larthia is up to. Fearing that his widowed granddaughter could become the target of assassins due to his political opposition to …
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