So I love Michelle Moran as a writer. She just knows how to make you feel every emotion her character is feeling. I cried twice during this book and wanted to murder Octavian a couple of times to. The characters are all deep even the side characters are deep and make you feel. The detail in the book was exquisite too. I actually felt like I was in Rome and Alexandria. It was easy to imagine.

Selene Cleopatra's daughter is a strong-willed, beautiful, self-reliant, and a woman who has had a lot of tragedy in her life but still lives with a warm and generous heart towards others. Even those how took everything from her. Octavian is Augustus emperor of Rome and he conquered Alexandria and has brought Selene and her twin brother Alexander to Rome as prisoners. He does give them a home though. Octavia, Octavian's sister house, clothes, and treats the twins like her own children then there are Julia who becomes a sister to Selene and Macellus who at first she loves and then realizes that she only has a crush on him because he was the first guy to treat her well. Gallia is an awesome slave girl who becomes their best friend and Juba is their bodyguard and tries to help them as much as possible. Then there is the Red Eagle a rebel who is trying to free the slaves.

A lot of characters make this story and all of them has huge part in it. It was incredible and great. I recommend it. It was beautifully rendered.