The sun's bride
By: Gillian Bradshaw.
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sutton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780727866417
Subjects: Naval history, Ancient -- Fiction.; Pirates -- Mediterranean Sea -- Fiction.; Mediterranean Region -- History, Naval -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.