Vita longs to write plays and poetry - but as a high-born girl in Roman Londinium her fate is sealed: marriage and children. Then her father is murdered her mother and brother disappear and Vita flees from a shadowy enemy. Disguised as a slave at the gladiators' arena she forges an unlikely bond with Brea a native Briton gladiatrix - and her wolf. Together they resolve to discover and bring the killer to justice before Vita's identity is revealed . . .