Name: Lady of the Eternal City
ISBN: 9780425259634

Kate Quinn

Challenged to keep the peace between her increasingly mad emperor husband and his warrior first love, Empress Sabina sees her son targeted by her husband's obsessions and conspires with her former lover and a spirited redheaded girl to save the Empire. Readers' guide included. By the national best-selling author of Mistress of Rome. Original.

Lady of the Eternal City

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Rose Code comes a historical saga about obsession, betrayal, and destiny. Sabina may be Empress of Rome, but she still stands poised on a knife’s edge. She must keep the peace between two deadly enemies: her husband Hadrian, Rome’s brilliant and sinister Emperor; and battered warrior Vix, her first love. But Sabina is guardian of a deadly secret: Vix’s beautiful son Antinous has become the Emperor’s latest obsession. Empress and Emperor, father and son will spin in a deadly dance of passion, betrayal, conspiracy, and war. As tragedy sends Hadrian spiraling into madness, Vix and Sabina form a last desperate pact to save the Empire. But ultimately, the fate of Rome lies with an untried girl, a spirited redhead who may just be the next Lady of the Eternal City....