They hailed her "Liberty" -- but she was free only to obey . . . or die Celtic warrior blood flowed in her veins, but as a gladiatrix-slave in Londinium's arena, Rhyddes was nothing more than a wild thing in a gilded cage. Yet though her Roman masters owned her body, she swore that noone would claim her soul. How was it, then, that Marcus Calpurnius Aquila, noble son of the Roman governor, could make her...
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