Beloved — Bertrice Small

BELOVED OF THE GODS. BELOVED OF MEN.

Her deep gray eyes, silky raven hair, magnificent body, and astonishing beauty rival the qualities of her legendary ancestor Cleopatra, and indeed, at her birth, her stars proclaim she will be lucky--and very accomplished--in the arts of love and war.

The daughter of a powerful desert chieftain. Zenobia witnesses at an early age the shocking brutality of renegade Roman soldiers and vows to hate all of the blue-eyed strangers forever.

Yet after she's become a woman and the revered queen of Palmyra, Zenobia finds the exquisite passion all women dream of--with Marcus Alexander Britainus, a blue-eyed 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....