Mistress of Rome
By (Author) Kate Quinn
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
1st January 2011
10th June 2010
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
544
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 34mm
423g
Orphaned by Rome s savage legions, Thea, a slave girl from Judaea, has learned what it takes to survive. She knows only violence until a chance meeting with gladiator Arius offers a shred of tenderness. But their bond is severed when Thea is sold again, condemned to rot in squalor. Years later, a singer known as Athena betrays no hint of her troubled past. Catching the eye of the Emperor himself, she is swept into a world of decadence and depravity. But although Domitian fears betrayal from every side, he is unaware that the greatest threat lies next to him a slave girl who has come to be called the Mistress of Rome...
Kate Quinn is a native of southern California. She attended Boston University, where she earned a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Classical Voice whilst at the same time writing her first novel, MISTRESS OF ROME, in the university's basement computer lab. Now twenty-seven, Kate lives in San Diego with her fiance.