This is a historical novel about Selene, who was the daughter of Marc Anthony and Kleopatra (apparently her name is more correctly spelled with a K, not a C). I did not know anything about her, or her twin brother Alexander. I did learn about the rise of Agustus in my Roman history class in college, but seeing it from Selene's point of view was really interesting. Yes, Selene is only 11 or 12 when her kingdom of Egypt is taken by Rome, and her parents commit suicide, but although she and the other characters in the book were technically teens throughout the whole thing, it didn’t really seem like that, since people frequently got married between the ages of 12-15, and were considered adults at 15. I had been reading the Emperor series by a different author, which left off when Julius Cesar died, so this is only a few years later, and picked up the story for me nicely, while at the same time giving me a different POV of Roman life. I would love to read some more of this author's work.