Chains of the Past

Time travel • Romance • Ancient Rome • Survival • Forbidden Love

When nineteen-year-old Christina wakes up in a stone cell instead of her apartment, she has no idea she's fallen over two thousand years into the past - straight into the brutal world of gladiators and slave markets.

Sold to a ludus, marked like property, and surrounded by men who see her as nothing but flesh, she expects death.
But then she meets Zarak - Rome's most feared and celebrated champion.
A man with scars on his skin and secrets buried even deeper.

He buys her freedom the only way he can: by making her his wife.
But marriage to a gladiator comes with its own dangers - blood, betrayal, and a mark that binds them both in ways neither of them expected.

As Christina searches for a way back home, she's drawn into a world of battles, politics, and forbidden tenderness.
And when she discovers who Zarak truly is, the question changes from how will she return?
to does she even want to anymore?