Unto Caesar

In the marble halls and shadowed forums of ancient Rome, a young slave girl with mysterious blue eyes becomes the prize in a dangerous game of power. When the auction hammer is about to fall, a noblewoman named Dea Flavia intervenes, challenging the sale through sheer will and knowledge of Roman law. What begins as a dispute over a single slave unravels into something far greater: a confrontation between the raw power of the empire and those clever enough to wield law, rhetoric, and secrets as weapons. Orczy, better known for The Scarlet Pimpernel, crafts a tale where the arena of battle is not blood-soaked sand but the marble courts and opulent atriums of Rome's elite. The stakes are freedom, survival, and the fragile dignity of those whom Rome calls 'property.' This is historical fiction that understands power is never simply held, only contested.