In her dream Jess was standing on the track near the wood. In front of her the gnarled, ancient oaks and taller,stately ash stood in a solid silhouette against the moonlit sky. Behind her, her sister's white-painted stone-built farmhouse lay sleeping in the warm silence of the summer night, bathed in moonlight, pots of lavender and rosemary mingling their sweet fragrance with that of the wild mountain thyme in the still air.
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When Jess is attacked by someone she once trusted,she flees to her sister's house in the Welsh borders to recuperate.But she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child.
Two thousand years before, the same valley is the site of a great battle between Caratacus, king of the British tribes, and the invading Romans. The proud king is captured and taken as a prisoner to Rome with his wife and daughter, the princess Eigon.
Jess is powerfully drawn to investigate Eigon's story,and is compelled to go to Rome herself. There lie the dements that will reveal Eigon's astonishing life - and which threaten to reawaken Jess s own tormentor...
Weaving together the connections between past and present, The Warriors Princess is an irresistible combination of history, danger and passion.