Summary
Rome the red, Rome the bloody, has triumphed. When Selene, the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, enters the city in chains beside her twin during Octavian’s triumph, she hears only the howling crowd and the cries of the prisoners. Soon the sole survivor of the “children of Alexandria,” the young captive is entrusted to Octavia, sister of the new master of the world, and grows up on the Palatine. While Augustus imposes his power, making and unmaking marriages like pawns, Selene secretly refuses to forget her mother, the queen of Egypt, and dreams of revenge. A powerful fresco of a vanished world by a master of historical fiction.
