The House With the Golden Door

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The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Brutal yet beautiful, heartfelt yet harrowing, this is one compulsive read Susan Stokes-Chapman Amara has escaped her life as a slave in Pompeiis most notorious brothel. She now has a house, fine clothes, servants but all are gifts from her patron, hers for as long as she keeps her place in his affections. As she adjusts to this new life, Amara is still haunted by her past. At night she dreams of the wolf den, and the women she left behind. By day, she is pursued by her former slavemaster. In order to be truly free, Amara will need to be as ruthless as he is. She knows she can draw strength from Venus, the goddess of love. Yet falling in love herself may prove to be Amaras downfall. Praise for The House with the Golden Door: 'Beautiful, moving, captivating... A brilliant sequel to The Wolf Den' Jennifer Saint 'Vivid, unsentimental and compelling' The Times '[A] gripping sequel... Harper's recreation of this ancient world continues to thrill' Observer 'Gripping and richly imagined, this is spellbinding storytelling' Louise O'Neill 'A spell-binding novel that brings Pompeii back to life and explores enslavement in all its forms' Anna Mazzola 'Absolutely stunning and utterly gripping!' Buki Papillon

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So beautiful, moving, captivating and thrilling. The House with the Golden Door is a brilliant sequel to The Wolf Den -- Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne
Vivid, unsentimental and compelling * The Times *
Vivid, gripping, and richly imagined, this is spellbinding storytelling -- Louise O'Neill
[A] gripping sequel... Harper's recreation of this ancient world continues to thrill * Observer *
A gripping and spell-binding novel that brings Pompeii back to life and explores enslavement in all its forms -- Anna Mazzola
Absolutely stunning and utterly gripping! -- Buki Papillon
Richly evocative, and reeling with drama and the determined passion and conflicts of its unforgettable heroine, this is historical fiction at its most thrillingly entertaining * LoveReading *
Beautifully written with great heart... Addictive reading * NB Magazine *
Meticulously researched, it's another brilliant look at the inhabitants of this fascinating ancient city * Woman & Home *
Ancient Pompeii comes to life in the second installment in Elodie Harper's Wolf Den trilogy... with Harper's clear prose and modern dialogue * Historical Novel Society *

Author Bio

Elodie Harper is a journalist and prize-winning short story writer. Her story 'Wild Swimming' won the 2016 Bazaar of Bad Dreams short story competition, which was judged by Stephen King. She is currently a reporter at ITV News Anglia, and before that worked as a producer for Channel 4 News. The House with the Golden Door is the second book in The Wolf Den trilogy. The first book in the trilogy, The Wolf Den, was a Waterstones Book of the Month for fiction and a Sunday Times Top 15 bestseller. elodieharper.com