Williamson, Jenny
9781335080516, 1335080511
Hardcover
 
Rome meets Vikings in an unputdownable enemies-to-lovers romance set in the last days of the Roman empire, pairing Rome’s number one enemy, the so-called King of the Goths, with the late emperor’s only daughter. Loosely based on real people, this epic reads like a dark Romantasy, just without the magic and dragons.
 
In the last days of the Roman Empire a desperate princess and brutal Goth warlord forge a dangerous alliance.
 
Julia, only daughter of the Emperor of Rome, lives a life of excess and freedom. Wine, philosophy, and scandal—she revels in hedonism. But when her father dies and her teenage brother takes the throne, he will stop at nothing to take control of both the Empire and his wayward sister. And now Alaric of the Visigoths, a ferocious warrior who has battled Rome for years, has come to the capital to bargain for his homeland.
 
When Julia rebels against the marriage her brother has ordered her to accept, he responds by publicly punishing her lover in the Coliseum. Realizing how perilous her position is (and after too much wine), Julia impulsively turns to Alaric—the Empire’s sworn enemy, and the one man who can make Rome tremble. Julia must forge an alliance with Alaric, a man she can’t trust—a terrifying warlord with the power to bring both Julia and the Empire to their knees—in an edgy, sexy cat-and-mouse game of attraction and repulsion across Europe.
 
Loosely based on real, historical figures, Enemy of My Dreams is a sizzling enemies-to-lovers dark romance of rebellion, defiance, and lust.