‘In my life I walked among titans, emperors, generals - men whose feuds and desires shaped the landscape of Rome… Some were my friends, some of them I loved, others loathed me, and others still grew to fear me.’

In the dying days of the Roman republic, a remarkable woman steps out of the shadows and beyond the boundaries imposed on her sex, driven by an unstoppable ambition.

Kaarina Parker's stunning debut novel, told in the compelling voice of this brilliant woman from history, brings Fulvia and the society in which she lived vividly to life.