b. 40 b.c

When Antony and Cleopatra took their own lives to avoid capture when Octavian invaded Egypt, their orphaned children, ten-year-old twins Selene and Alexander, were sent by Octavian to live with his sister. While hoping to one day return to Egypt, the twins come of age in Rome and are drawn into the politics of the court.

Princess Selene, Cleopatra's daughter, survived a perilous childhood as a Roman captive after her mother's death. Pledging her loyalty to Augustus Caesar, she is forced to marry a man of the Emperor's choosing. The magic of Isis makes her indispensible to the emperor and against a backdrop of imperial politics and religious persecution she makes her way to the very precipice of power.

With her parents both dead, Princess Selene of Egypt, the daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, is left at the mercy of her Roman captors after the fall of Alexandria.