num_pages: 480
description: The daughter of a powerful desert cheiftain, beautiful raven-haired Zenobia, a descendent of Cleopatra, witnesses at an early age the shocking brutality of renegade Roman soldiers and vows to hate all of the blue-eyed strangers forever. Despite that pledge, she falls hopelessly and passionately in love with Marcus Alexander Britanus, a Roman. And it will take all her cunning and skill in war to keep the precious erotic rapture she can find only in his arms....
language: English
title: Beloved
titlecomplete: Beloved
characters: Marcus Alexander Britainus, Zenobia
genres: Historical Romance, Fiction, Egypt, Historical, Romance, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1263
publisher: Ballantine Books