Elegant secretive Sabina may be Empress of Rome but she still stands poised on a knifes edge She must keep the peace between two deadly enemies her husband Hadrian Romes brilliant and sinister Emperor and battered warrior Vix who is her first love But Sabina is guardian of a deadly secret Vixs beautiful son Antinous has become the Emperors latest obsessionEmpress and Emperor father and son will spin in a deadly dance of passion betrayal conspiracy and war As tragedy sends Hadrian spiraling into madness Vix and Sabina form a last desperate pact to save the Empire But ultimately the fate of Rome lies with an untried girl a spirited redhead who may just be the next Lady of the Eternal City
