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Gladiator's Beloved: an Ancient Roman historical romance
Paperback
Publisher: Jenna Bigelow
Published: Apr 10 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She's the gladiator. He's the beloved.
Lea is one of the fiercest and most highly prized female gladiators in imperial Rome. She fights for her freedom, but the exorbitant sum her manager demands remains out of reach. When one spectacular victory catches the emperor's attention, he rewards her by sending his own physician, Kallias, to tend her wounds. Lea has no time for a man like Kallias: refined, brilliant, and far too handsome. Yet between trading barbs and stitching wounds, a heat sparks she can't ignore.
Kallias yearns to escape the imperial family's tangled web, but freeing himself from the paranoid emperor's control is no simple matter. In Lea, he finds an impulsive, fearless woman who makes him crave the future he can never have while bound to the emperor's mercurial whims.
One stolen night becomes two, then three, and soon Lea offers him what she keeps carefully hidden-the real woman beneath the armor, whose desire for trust and surrender clashes with her fierce persona in the arena.
But with an unpredictable emperor pulling the strings, nothing comes easy, and Lea soon discovers that winning her happily-ever-after will be the most perilous fight of her life.
Gladiator's Beloved is Book 2 in the Imperial Games series but can be read as a standalone. It features a chaotic gladiator heroine, a cautious physician hero, plenty of spice, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
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