Constantinople, 672 AD. Ex-concubine Anna makes a living manufacturing perfume and attempts to raise her daughter well, while trying to keep it secret that Theodosia is really a prince's daughter. But as an Arab invasion threatens and Kallinikos - an alchemist working on a secret weapon to use in the siege - comes into their lives, her daughter's secret is forced into the open and Anna must accept a huge upheaval in her life, recognize her feelings for the attentive Kallinikos and rethink her determined independence...
- ISBN10 0727860976
- ISBN13 9780727860972
- Publish Date 30 April 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 March 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Edition World ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English