The Gardens of Byzantium

<p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The year is 622 A.D. and the Persian and Byzantine empires have been fighting a war in the deserts since before she was born...</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Asana's life has been one of turmoil and change. Every year found her uprooted and brought to another foreign land to live an austere life in a garrison with her father an officer in the Persian Army. But the middle of a war is no place for such a gentle soul.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Before long she is swept away from her family and forced to flee on the back of her beloved horse. Fate leads her into the hands of a handsome and mysterious Roman soldier who sequesters her in a beautiful palace in the heart of Constantinople the capital of the Byzantine empire.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>She begins to fall for him and at last it seems as though she may have found an oasis of happiness in her war-torn world. That is until news of a Persian army marching toward the city upends her life again setting in motion an unstoppable chain of events that bring the story to its breathtaking and tragic conclusion...</span></p>