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Roman Britain in the year 102, Trajan is Emperor, Britain is supposedly pacified but there are pockets of resistance and wide differences in the lifestyles of the native Britons and the Roman settlers. But love can cross boundaries A wealthy Roman, Lucius Marcius is living in Britain with his wife and children. To please his son, Gaius, he had enslaved Verluccus, a native British boy. Verluccus ran away. Now he is recaptured, as a rebel, fighting beside his brothers, he resists but eventually submits to his situation. However, he falls in love with his master’s sister, Gaia, but she is married and married to the brother of a man he is known to have killed in battle, a man she once was betrothed to. At first, she hates him and wants him dead; but then she falls in love with Verluccus, but their love has to remain a secret …

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