Flight from Rome
Rome, March 44 BC: when slave girl Myrina shows up in the bakery, the baker’s slave Leander instantly falls head over heels in love with her. Myrina’s mistress is none other than Caesar’s lover Cleopatra, who is currently residing in Rome – and on a whim she decides to sell her slave to the lecherous Mark Antony. The only way Myrina can avoid this fate is to flee. Together with Leander she forges an adventurous plan. But Caesar’s soldiers are hot on their heels, for Myrina has taken Cleopatra’s most precious gem – the legendary Tear of Dido...
Genre: Children & Young Adult, Young Adult, YA Age 12+, YA Love / Romance, YA History
256 pages,
ISBN: 978-3-423-71459-4
First published 2011