Title: The sun's bride /
Authors: Bradshaw, Gillian, 1956-
Publisher: Severn House,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Naval history, Ancient Fiction.; Pirates Mediterranean Sea Fiction.; Mediterranean Region History, Naval Fiction.
Abstract: Spring, 266 BC. When Isokrates, helmsman of the Rhodian warship Atalanta, encounters a pirate vessel off the Lycian coast, he finds himself caught up in affairs of state more deadly than the naval battles hes accustomed to. Among the pirates victims is a beautiful woman, the mistress of a king, who is fleeing to her lovers enemy with news that will start a war to engulf the whole of the east.