Beloved
480 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1983
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ISBN: 9780345327857
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication date: 12 September 1985
Description
The daughter of a powerful desert cheiftain, beautiful raven-haired Zenobia, a descendent of Cleopatra, witnesses at an early age the shocking brutality of renegade Roman soldiers and vows to hate all of the blue-eyed strangers forever. Despite that pledge, she falls hopelessly and passionately in love with Marcus Alexander Britanus, a Roman. And it will take all her cunning and skill in war to keep the precious erotic rapture she can find only in his arms....