# Mistress of Rome

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- Book: [Mistress of Rome](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-quinn/mistress-of-rome) ([Mistress of Rome.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-quinn/mistress-of-rome.md))
- Authors: [Kate Quinn](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-quinn)
- Publisher: Headline Review
- ISBN: 978-07-5535-793-2
- Published: 2010-06-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Passion. Treachery. Murder... A heart-stopping epic about a Jewish slave girl and Rome's greatest gladiator, who become involved in a plot to assassinate an emperor Orphaned by Rome's savage legions, Thea, a slave girl from Judaea, has learned what it takes to survive. She knows only violence until a chance meeting with gladiator Arius offers a shred of tenderness. But their bond is severed when Thea is sold again, condemned to rot in squalor. Years later, a singer known as Athena betrays no hint of her troubled past. Catching the eye of the Emperor himself, she is swept into a world of decadence and depravity. But although Domitian fears betrayal from every side, he is unaware that the greatest threat lies next to him - a slave girl who has come to be called the Mistress of Rome...