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Adora

Bertrice Small

198040 pagesabout 35–55 minutes
1980
first published
  • 1980Ballantine Books · ENGISBN 9780345284938
  • 1981Ballantine Books · ENGISBN 9780345302137
  • 1995Ballantine Books · 448 pages · ENGISBN 9780345465160
  • 1985Ballantine Books · 40 pages · ENGISBN 9780345335067
  • 2007Cerridwen Press · 414 pages · ENGISBN 9781419956799

Adora! Her beauty was legend. And in the dying days of the great Byzantine Empire - that last vestige of what had once been Imperial Rome - her value as the emperor's daughter was priceless. Three men claimed her as wife. Orkhan, the powerful Ottoman sultan; the dashing pirate Alexander, lord of Mesembria; and Prince Murad, to whom Adora's heart truly belonged. In a grand epic that sweeps the reader from the golden palaces of fourteenth-century Byzantium to the blazing sensuality of the sultan's harem, Adora was a woman who firmly controlled her own destiny because she and Murad were meant only for each other. And together their passions would forge an empire. Adora! Her name was the secret of all love.

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