Betrothed to the Barbarian

Rose Award Finalist: An exiled princess returns to Byzantium—carrying a precious secret she must hide from the husband chosen for her . . .

Princess Theodora of Constantinople is to marry Duke Nikolaos, the general-in-chief of the army, a man chosen for her by the Emperor. An imperial princess must always do her duty—be beautiful, obedient and pure.

But Theodora spent ten years in exile in a barbari...