“A romantic romp through the ashes of a dying empire. With a romantic’s heart and a historian’s deft touch, Williamson brings the ancient world to vivid, breathtaking life.”
—Luna McNamara, author of Psyche and Eros
Julia, only daughter of the emperor of Rome, lives a life of excess and freedom. Wine, philosophy, and scandal—she revels in hedonism. But when her father dies and her teenage brother takes the throne, he will stop at nothing to seize control of both the empire and his wayward sister. And now Alaric of the Visigoths, a ferocious warrior who has battled Rome for years, has come to the capital to bargain for his homeland.
When Julia rebels against the marriage her brother has ordered her to accept, he responds by publicly punishing her lover in the Colosseum. Realizing how perilous her position is, Julia impulsively turns to Alaric—the empire’s sworn enemy, and the one man who can make Rome tremble. Julia must find a way to make an ally of Alaric, a man she can’t trust—a terrifying warlord with the power to bring both Julia and the empire to their knees—in an edgy, sexy cat-and-mouse game of attraction, defiance, and lust.
About Jenny
Jenny Williamson is the author of ENEMY OF MY DREAMS, a dark enemies-to-lovers historical romantasy set during the fall of Rome and starring Alaric of the Visigoths, coming out with Harlequin in 2025. She is also the co-host of the Ancient History Fangirl podcast, which she co-created as an outlet for her overwhelming obsession with ancient history. ENEMY OF MY DREAMS is her first novel.
