New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough re-creates an
extraordinary epoch before the mighty Republic belonged to Julius
Caesar--when Rome's noblewomen were his greatest conquest.
His victories were legend--in battle and bedchamber alike. Love was a
political weapon he wielded cunningly and ruthlessly in his private war
against enemies in the forum. Genius, general, patrician, Gaius Julius
Caesar was history. His wives bought him influence. He sacrificed his
beloved daughter on the altar of ambition. He burned for the
cold-hearted mistress he could never dare trust. Caesar's women all
knew--and feared--his power. He adored them, used them, destroyed them
on his irresistible rise to prominence. And one of them would seal his
fate.