SYNOPSIS : RUBICON
One Woman - Two Lives. A tale of love in the present, and lust in the past.
Down-trodden Archaeologist, Melissa Gordon, has never achieved anything, but when she’s offered a job on a dig in Italy, she sees a way to change her life. With her career back on track, things are looking up for Melissa until she becomes lost in a thick mist and is thrown back in time to Ancient Rome.
Taken prisoner by Roman soldiers, Melissa thinks it is a bad dream until circumstances have her presented to Caesar. In an effort to save herself, she uses her historical knowledge to pose as a soothsayer and quickly gains his patronage. But faultless predictions bring this new prophet to the attention of Mark Antony who wants to use Melissa to further his own career and as they grow closer she struggles with her feelings towards him.
As Melissa carefully guides both Antony and Caesar towards their destinies, will she be revealed as a fraud? Will she ever find a way back to her time? And if that opportunity comes, will she really want to go?
One Woman - Two Lives. A tale of love in the present, and lust in the past.
Down-trodden Archaeologist, Melissa Gordon, has never achieved anything, but when she’s offered a job on a dig in Italy, she sees a way to change her life. With her career back on track, things are looking up for Melissa until she becomes lost in a thick mist and is thrown back in time to Ancient Rome.
Taken prisoner by Roman soldiers, Melissa thinks it is a bad dream until circumstances have her presented to Caesar. In an effort to save herself, she uses her historical knowledge to pose as a soothsayer and quickly gains his patronage. But faultless predictions bring this new prophet to the attention of Mark Antony who wants to use Melissa to further his own career and as they grow closer she struggles with her feelings towards him.
As Melissa carefully guides both Antony and Caesar towards their destinies, will she be revealed as a fraud? Will she ever find a way back to her time? And if that opportunity comes, will she really want to go?
RUBICON - Definition:
A small river in northern Italy, now widely used as a reference for reaching the point of no return.
A small river in northern Italy, now widely used as a reference for reaching the point of no return.
RUBICON is the first installment in a trilogy of novels