Authors: A Heart Divided
Mary Brock Jones (37 page)
I have kept to the place names most commonly used at the time. Where they differ from the modern names, they are listed below. Chamonix did exist, but no trace of it now remains and the exact site is not known. It was somewhere above where the modern road from Roxburgh to Alexandra crosses Gorge Creek. On the other side of the road, a monument has been erected to the unknown number of Otago miners who perished in the winter storms of 1863.
Molyneux River | Clutha River |
The Dunstan, or the Upper Dunstan | Clyde |
Lower Dunstan | Alexandra |
Bald Hill Flat | John Reid’s fictional Run is set in the area historically known as Bald Hill Flat or Speargrass Flat, now called the Fruitlands district. |
The Last Gladiatrix
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In the dust and death of the Collosseum, a slave fights for freedom, a soldier fights for his life, and they both fight for the love that has been forbidden.
Captured and enslaved by a Roman legion, Xanthe never expects to end up training for the Colosseum floor, but every night after the day’s march, she is put through her paces by a Roman solider who challenges her, tests her, and excites her.
Titus is drawn to Xanthe, her fire and her spirit, so he breaks one of his rules and brings notice on himself, offering to train her as a gladiatrix to spare her a courtesan’s role. But training her, working with her, soon becomes too much. Titus knows the penalty for taking property that does not belong to him, but how long can he resist?
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ISBN: 9780857990389
Title: A HEART DIVIDED
Copyright © 2013 by Mary Brock Jones
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