The Ravishers — Jeanne Duval

A Woman's Price -- The price of Lysandra's falling in love was her being torn from her homeland of Gaul and sent to distant Rome. The price of her virginity was a few coins of silver, contemptuously tossed to her by the legionnaire who had brutally used her. The price of her staying off the streets was to please an Emperor for whom women held few surprises and little attraction. The price of her vengeance was finally paid while a great volcano poured its molten horror over a Pompeian orgy of sensuality and slaughter... This magnificent novel has all the adventure and excitement of Rome at her mightiest -- and all the timeless anguish and burning courage of a woman whose love was too great to betray the man who had betrayed her...