Torn — Kate Hill

Drenched in blood and sweat, Sir Torn is thrust before the healer known as Honey Wine that she might prepare him for the brutal Entertainment to come: a slave -- Torn -- fighting another slave to the death for the depraved ruler's amusement.

The new slave's arrogant nature piques Honey Wine's interest in more ways than one. Against her better judgment, she begins to notice him as a man. And begins to suspect that he is so much more than a slave...