Spring, 266 BC When Isokrates, helmsman of the Rhodian warship Atalanta, encounters a pirate vessel off the Lycian coast, he finds himself caught up in affairs of state more deadly than the naval battles he’s accustomed to. Among the pirates’ victims is a beautiful woman, the mistress of a king, who is fleeing to her lover’s enemy with news that will start a war to engulf the whole of the east . . .
First World Publication
Previous titles by this author Dark North (Jun 07) - Booklist Bloodwood (Mar 07) - Booklist The Elixir of Youth (Dec 05) - Booklist
'Bradshaw (Dark North) does a splendid job of bringing to life a period of ancient history underutilized in fiction' Publishers Weekly on The Sun's Bride