Set in 192 CE, the novel follows Julia as she tries to protect her children’s future and her own position amid the power struggles of the Roman Empire. It is a historical novel that joins imperial ambition to family politics.

At the center of the Roman Empire, it shows the weight of decisions made in the struggle for power.

Mothers, daughters, siblings, and inherited memory are brought together again inside a family history shadowed by dark secrets. The novel traces layers of feeling that pass across generations.

It brings the buried colors of family history to the surface with quiet tension.