Venus has worked all her life in the fields, her previous owner wasn't the best since he was a drunkard who loved to beat his workers. When he couldn't pay his debt anymore he had to sell Venus in the market, and since she was pretty strong and attractive to look at, people were swarming to buy her. Lavinia is the empress of Rome, she's been married to the emperor for a long while and he's been nothing but an abusive prick to her, one day she was going for her usual walk at the market when she saw someone who really caught her attention. A very beautiful woman...

Troubled 18 year old x cold English teacher. Ms. Jones does everything she can to try and get Scarlett to open up and stop pushing people out but what happens when in the midst of it all, they both secretly start to fall in love with eachother.