For ten years, a masked general called Invictus has won every battle Caesar sent him to fight, and no one in Rome has ever seen his face. Now the war is over, and Caesar wants to name him his heir. But Invictus doesn't want an empire. He wants to go home to Livia, the girl he grew up with and the one he's been secretly sending his fortune to all along. He takes off the mask and walks back into Rome as Marcus, a nobody with an old brand on his wrist. What he finds is Livia in silk and gold, engaged to Caesar's own son and wearing the treasures he won for her, and she tells everyone she has never seen him before. By the next morning, Marcus is facing the arena, and all of Rome has turned out to watch him fall. There's one woman in the crowd who doesn't want him to fall. She's a hooded soldier with a secret of her own and only seven days to find a husband, and she has decided it will be him. Rome thinks it knows who he is. Rome is wrong.
