Julius Caesar is dead. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control. As civil war rages, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a quest for the Shards of Heaven, lost treasures said to possess the power of the gods-or the one God.
Caught up in these events are a pair of exiled Roman legionnaires, and the ten-year-old daughter of Cleopatra herself.