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The Sun’s Bride
First published 2008
In 246 BCE, the Rhodian warship Atalanta destroys a pirate vessel off the Lycian coast and rescues Dionysia, the mistress of Seleucid king Antiochus II. She carries information from the Seleucid court whose political consequences threaten to draw Rhodes into a struggle between the great Hellenistic kingdoms.
Helmsman Isokrates must protect his ship and his city while deciding how far to involve himself in a crisis that develops into the Third Syrian War. Naval patrols, piracy, diplomacy and romance unfold against the end of Antiochus II’s reign, when dynastic conflict between the Seleucid and Ptolemaic houses made neutrality increasingly difficult for an independent maritime republic.
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