A woman from 1905. A man from 2026. When Amira flees into a desert cave, she expects to wait out the sandstorm and return to an arranged marriage. Instead, she finds Andy — a stranger speaking of a future where women walk free and decide their own fates. He teaches her two words her world never offered: choice and consent. Her body, her rules. Her pleasure, her permission. She steps into a century where everything she was taught about shame, freedom, and desire is turned upside down.
A story set in New Rome
Rose Sclava Gaius Gallicus would like to be a better slave, but her European blood and desire for fellow slave Clover sometimes make her willful. When Rose is summoned from working in the general's garden in order to serve in his son's bed alongside Clover, she goes eagerly, hoping that her deepest desires might finally be coming true.