Barbarian Hearts: The Academy Of Chains ( vol. 1)

"You shouldn't speak that way," he said.
"Then let Rome try."

Cassia was sold in chains to the empire's most elite academy. Labeled a barbarian. Assigned to copy scrolls. Ordered to stay silent.

She does none of that.

Sharp-tongued, brilliant, and entirely out of place, she catches the eye of Cassian Varro-Rome's golden boy. Arrogant. Untouchable. Dangerous. And suddenly obsessed with the girl who refuses to kneel.

He wants control.
She wants answers.
But the scrolls whisper secrets only she can read-strange words, lost time, a life she doesn't remember.

She doesn't know where she came from.
But something tells her it wasn't this century.

A slow-burn bully romance set in the Roman Empire-with fierce stares, forbidden kisses, and a love that was never supposed to happen.