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By Steven Saylor

In forty eight B.C., Roman generals Caesar and Pompey have lengthy engaged in a conflict to rule the realm. Now, as Pompey plots a reckless stand at the banks of the Nile, Gordianus the Finder-who has introduced his spouse Bethesda to the river looking a medication for her in its sacred waters-finds himself by surprise on the middle of a sequence of treacherous and history-altering events.

While Caesar and Cleopatra embark on a mythical romance, Egypt continues to be ravaged by means of the brutal contest among the Queen and her brother King Ptolemy. Worst of considering Gordianus, his once-disowned son and Caesar's right-hand guy, stands falsely accused of homicide. Caesar's judgment will make a decision Meto's destiny, and it truly is as much as Gordianus to in some way triumph over big malevolent forces to bare the conscientiously obscured fact and spare his son's life.

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