Under the Flavian Emperors the Roman public s hunger for gladiatorial combat has never been greater. The Emperor Domitian s passion for novelty and variety in the arena has given rise to a very different kind of warrior: the Gladiatrix

The third adventure in the visceral female gladiator trilogy that began with Gladiatrix--Lysandra is back, and she's going to war In the dirt of the Flavian Amphitheatre, known to history as the Coliseum, lies the bloodied body of Spartan priestess Lysandra--cut down by Rome's adored Gladiatrix Prima, the beautiful and deadly Illeana, the Midnight Falcon. At the edge of the underworld, the goddess Athene offers Lysandra's spirit a stark choice: reside eternally amid the fields of Elysium, or return to a life that is full of pain and sorrow--but will secure Lysandra a glorious...