War is a jealous lover who is reluctant to release me from her embrace.Pacorus, now retired from the politics of Parthia, embarks on a journey to request the high king find a place in the empire for his Egyptian prot g , who has been offered the governorship of Roman-controlled Egypt, as well as to discover the whereabouts of his former squire.But Queen Gallia's assassins have unwittingly set in motion a sequence of events that will plunge the empire...