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FROM THE SHIFTING SANDS OF EGYPT ...
The Golden Arrow was the most coveted prize of the desert's fierce Bedouin tribes, but it was a disgrace for the prince's beautiful sister to claim it by outriding and outshooting her male competition. When the sheik despaired of finding her a husband, Adhania vowed, "I shall show you that I can please a man," and proceeded to inflame all viewers by disguising herself as a dancing girl. What choice did her brother have but to send her off to Queen Cleopatra for a change of scene and lessons in decorum?
TO THE TREACHEROUS STREET OF ROME ...
Tribune Marcellus Valerius, Caesar's Master Architect, had witnessed Adhania's sultry display, been intrigued by her daring and entranced by her soft skin and the unforgettable scent of jasmine. In the city of his birth, where scandal, intrigue and danger were a way of life, the lovely young Egyptian seemed instantly at home. But caught between Caesar and Cleopatra, she soon needed rescuing and to learn that Marcellus knew best of all how to please his woman.
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Re: Sword of Rome
第一本書Lord of the Nile男主角妹妹的故事,男主角是羅馬貴族、勇猛的戰士與著名的建築師。
女主角男扮女裝參加了只能男性參加的比賽,被哥哥責備沒辦法吸引異性,為證明自己可以取悅異性,就和舞女一起上場表演,男主角就在那時注意到女主角並受其吸引。
後來女主角被哥哥懲罰送到埃及豔后那裡,要請克麗奧佩托拉代為管教,沒想到女王卻利用女主角假扮舞女在宴會裡打聽情報......
這本書我覺得比第一本好看,男主角也從頭到尾對女主角一往情深,當時的律法規定羅馬人不能娶異族,男主角無論如何還是要娶女主角,四星推薦。
補充:書裡大部分的時間也都是在羅馬和沙漠,幾乎沒有埃及的場景,想看埃及宮廷的不要指望這系列的四本書。