Enemy of My Dreams

Overview

Hailed as "a cinematic adventure" and highly recommended by the Historical Novel Society, Enemy of My Dreams is the sizzling debut romance that brings the fall of Rome to breathtaking, scandalous life.

Julia is the only daughter of the Roman emperor, and she has made an art of living dangerously. Wine, philosophy, and scandal fill her days. She answers to no one — until her father dies and her teenage brother seizes the throne.

Her brother wants control of the empire. He also wants control of Julia. When she refuses the marriage he has arranged for her, he makes his displeasure brutally clear — punishing her lover publicly in the Colosseum for all of Rome to see.

The message is impossible to misread: fall in line, or suffer the consequences.

But Julia has no intention of falling in line. Desperate and cornered, she turns to the last person anyone would expect — Alaric of the Visigoths, a ferocious warrior who has spent years making Rome bleed. He has come to the capital to bargain for his homeland, and he is not a man who forgives easily or trusts at all.

Julia needs an ally powerful enough to make her brother think twice. Alaric is the one man in the world with the strength to make Rome tremble. The problem is, she cannot trust him — and the attraction between them is as dangerous as the political game they are both playing.

What unfolds is a razor-sharp cat-and-mouse of defiance, desire, and shifting loyalties, set against the spectacular and crumbling backdrop of a dying empire.

"Jenny Williamson's debut novel is packed with political intrigue, high-stakes romance, and a richly layered historical setting... Their chemistry is as much a battle as the war raging around them, making for a romance that's as steamy as it is compelling. Highly recommended." — Historical Novel Society

Series Information

Series Name: The Fall of Rome Series

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