‘…I will die before I let them take the purple that robes me. For never will I see the day where those I meet do not call me Empress.’
Leontius is stratiotai, a soldier of Rome’s armies. He has lived a decade and more of war, staining his boots with the dirt of nations that have dared to raise their blades against the Empire.
It’s left him tired.
So, when given a chance to step from the battlefield and into Constantinople’s Imperial Palace, he takes it.
He enters the service of Empress Theodora, a woman unlike any other, who rose from the capital’s meanest brothels to sit as co-ruler of the Mediterranean’s mightiest Empire.
But the city writhes in her grip. As embers of rebellion flare into conflagration, Leontius will find that there exists a life beyond what he has known.
A path he sees reflected in the smile of a guardswoman with wild, cypress eyes.
The Silken Empress is an action and plot-heavy romance containing scenes of graphic sex and violence.
Leontius is stratiotai, a soldier of Rome’s armies. He has lived a decade and more of war, staining his boots with the dirt of nations that have dared to raise their blades against the Empire.
It’s left him tired.
So, when given a chance to step from the battlefield and into Constantinople’s Imperial Palace, he takes it.
He enters the service of Empress Theodora, a woman unlike any other, who rose from the capital’s meanest brothels to sit as co-ruler of the Mediterranean’s mightiest Empire.
But the city writhes in her grip. As embers of rebellion flare into conflagration, Leontius will find that there exists a life beyond what he has known.
A path he sees reflected in the smile of a guardswoman with wild, cypress eyes.
The Silken Empress is an action and plot-heavy romance containing scenes of graphic sex and violence.
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