Selene has grown up in a palace on the Nile with her parents, Cleopatra and Mark Anthonyt̮he most brilliant and powerful rulers on earth. But the jealous Roman Emperor Octavianus wants Egypt for himself, and when war finally comes, Selene faces the loss of all she's ever loved. Forced to build a new life in Octavianus's household in Rome, she finds herself torn between two young men and two possible destinies u̮ntil she reaches out to claim her own.