Taurus Antinor loved her, that she knew.
The last four days had made a woman of her: she had tasted of and witnessed every passion that rends a human heart, love, ambition, cruelty, hatred The man whom she loved, loved her with an intensity at least equal to that which even now made her heart throb at the memory of his kiss.
He loved her, longed for her, would have laid down his life for her even at the moment when he tore himself away from her arms.
Dea Flavia was like a goddess of love in Classical Rome.
Beautiful, young and rich, she was worshipped by men and envied by women.
But then she met the handsome and mysterious Taurus Antinor - and his mission.
And her life changed forever.
Could she survive the blood-crazed politics of Rome? Could she fend off the advances of a mad emperor called - Caligula? The bread and circuses and romance of Ancient Rome brought to life by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Baroness Emma Magdolna Roz lia M ria Jozefa Borb la Emmuska Orczy de Orczi was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright and artist of noble origin.
She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel.
In 1903, Orczy and her husband wrote a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart.
, who rescued French aristocrats from the French Revolution: The Scarlet Pimpernel.
The play was accepted for production in the West End and though initially drew only small audiences, it ran four years, broke many stage records, was translated and produced in other countries, and underwent several revivals.
This theatrical success generated huge sales for the novel and Orczy went on to write over a dozen sequels.
Orczy's novels were racy, mannered melodramas and she favored historical fiction.
