The life of Boadicea (Boudicca), queen of the Iceni, who led them and other British tribes in a valiant but futile revolt against the Romans in 62 A.D.
The time is several generations after the death of Alexander the Great; the setting, the Central Asian remnant of his sprawling empire, where legend and history are one, where men and women lead lives of nobility and fierce passion.
In Africa in the early nineteenth century, a slave regains his freedom and attempts to carry out the blood oath he had sworn to kill the man who sold him into slavery.
