Mage Kalandra believes she is leading an ideal life - until she learns her husband died trying to run away with another man's wife. And now she's plotting revenge on a dead man, with no thought to the consequences for her people or her home ...
In a world where Rome never ruled, the Christian religion remained a niche cult, and the Colossus never fell, the islands of the Mediterranean control a trading empire that makes them one of the wealthiest confederations in the world.