Daughter of Scorpions

<p><em>An extravagant debt requires an extravagant penance.</em></p><p><br>Twenty years after she was saved from the vengeful justice of her great-grandfather<br>Augustus beautiful Zosime has been carefully sheltered from the schemes of both her<br>Julii family and those of her father the crafty Sejanus. Raised in secret with her cousins<br>by her aunt and uncle in Ombos she has no ambitions beyond protecting them<br>alongside her beloved teacher Aetia.</p><p><br>But when Aetia is summoned by the aging Emperor Tiberius to save him and the empire<br>from the ever more powerful Sejanus Zosime-disguised as her cousin-must leave the<br>safety of her life in Egypt for the glamorous danger of her father's Rome. And when<br>catastrophe sends her into his web of deceit alone she'll have to rely on the most<br>unlikely god of all to save the Egypt that she loves and the Rome that might be her<br>destiny.</p><p>But can she forgive the newly-divine Augustus before she falls under Sejanus's<br>deadly spell?</p>