Lucius was a man of duty. Duty to his country to the men he commanded and more importantly to his wife Until he found himself enslaved and his beloved wife forced to marry the master of the very Ludus that holds him in chains. Now he must fight not only for his life but his freedom and that of his wifes but when an intriguing woman appears with her curious manner of speech and unique coloring she makes Lucius question everything he believed; everything he had been fighting for Is all as it appears or has he been deceived, betrayed by the very one he had vowed everything to