Gillian Bradshaw
Gillian Marucha Bradshaw (born 1956) is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels. She currently lives in Britain.
A historical novel.
Spring, 266 BC – When Isokrates, helmsman of the Rhodian warship Atalanta, encounters a pirate vessel off the Lycian coast, he finds himself caught up in affairs of state more deadly than the naval battles hes accustomed to. Among the pirates victims is a beautiful woman, the mistress of a king, who is fleeing to her lovers enemy with news that will start a war to engulf the whole of the east...