Warrior, slave and gladiator, Auriane of the Chattian Tribe
has lived a colorful and precarious life. Now the wife of
Roman citizen Marcus Arrius Julianus, Auriane is a proper
Roman matron living peacefully with her family on her
husband's estate in Germania Superior. Unbeknownst to her
husband and retainers, Auriane is also a rebel and traitor
to Rome.
Secretly supplying her people with money to buy arms,
Auriane risks not only her own life but that of her husband
and daughters should her treachery be discovered. As fate
would have it, Auriane's secret is uncovered and exploited
by the pettiest of tyrants. With the safety of her people
tipped on one side of the scale and her family's lives held
in the balance on the other, Auriane searches her soul and
bravely makes her choices.
Gillespie has a real sense of time and place. All the
cruelty, passion and treachery that we expect from Rome and
her people come alive in LADY OF THE LIGHT, the long-
awaited sequel to THE LIGHT BEARER. This is an expertly
paced page-turner from one of history's most exciting
chapters.
Auriane, warrior maiden of the Chattian tribe, was sworn to
remove the cursed Romans from the lands of the Rhine. Then
fate intervened: she was captured, brought to Rome in
chains, and trained to fight in the arenas as a gladiator-
only to fall in love with a Roman aristocrat, Marcus Arrius
Julianus, and become his wife.
Marcus and Auriane have lived in tranquility for years but,
without his knowledge, Auriane is a traitor to Rome.
Plundering her husband's coffers for nearly a decade,
Auriane has provided her people with enough wealth to arm
themselves. Now, Auriane's betrayal has been discovered,
and if her duplicity reaches the Roman authorities, her
life - and the lives of her family - will be forfeit.
