They may have been born privileged into the Claudii Pulchri family, but siblings Clodius Pulcher and Clodia Metelli are firebrands: kindred spirits; brazen, impetuous, headstrong; determined to live by their own rules.

Together they incite the wrath of Rome’s elite - and in particular, Cicero. But nothing is sacred in late Republican Rome - and rules keep changing when change threatens to rule …

The vagaries of the period are brought to vibrant life through the eyes and exploits of Clodius and Clodia in this historical novel in verse.