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435 CE, in the Saxon lands. A girl, the daughter of the village midwife and herbalist dreams of the lands which lie out of sight the river which flows past her home. One day she is torn from her family by a band of passing boatmen and sold as a slave. Beyond the horizon, on the frontier of the fading empire, she discovers fear and pleasure, hatred and love, men and women she thought only existed in tales, and lands she could never have imagined, follow one another as the Fates decide. But each twist in the thread of her life provides an opportunity to learn, an opportunity to develop into a woman who can offer health and happiness, life or death.

412 CE: From a dinner party in Verulamium, two journeys begin through the chaos and confusion of the late Roman Empire from Britannia, through Gaul and on to Rome. Ophelia Ursina, daughter of the governor of Britannia Prima, is seeking freedom and security. Drusus Astrebanus, so of the governor''s arch enemy, is seeking vengeance for the death of his brother and the return of his family''s property and status. In the wake of the failed uprising of General Flavius Claudius Constantinus, the usurper and co-Emperor Constantine III, the risks have only become greater as barbarians from the east infest the fading state. The rule of law no longer applies, and violence becomes the only defense. This is a dangerous world for men, and even more so for women.