Betrayed by an empire she was sworn to defend, enslaved by an emperor she was meant to protect.

During the last days of the Roman Republic, the witch women of the Ose tribe looked to the future, and what they saw terrified them. To protect the world, they made a pact with Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome. In return for destroying his enemies and securing his empire, he would allow a single djambe to serve at his side, to use her magic to guard against the encroaching chaos they knew would one day come.

Vesper’s destiny was to serve at the emperor’s side, but when the mad Emperor Commodus comes to power, he doesn’t believe in magic and old fairy tales. In a fit of rage, he destroys her people and orders her execution, just as a dark tide takes hold of Rome.

Now with the world in peril, Vesper must do the impossible, survive her execution and save an empire that has betrayed her.