Alexander, a young Greek philosophy student, is wrenched from a life unlived to submit to the will of an empire - as a slave of Rome. Yet no matter how he struggles to recapture his dignity, no matter how high he climbs, or how deeply he falls in love, his life is still bound to the will of his master.

REVIEW

“Levkoff’s work belongs on any bookshelf beside the works of Steven Saylor and Robert Harris.”

Reviewed by: Professor Michaela Oberlaender, St. Petersburg College