INTRODUCED BY SEÁN HEWITT I thought There goes my lord whom I was born to follow. I have
found a king. And I said to myself looking after him as he walked away I will have him if
I die for it. Bagoas abducted as a boy and sold as a eunuch has been transported to the
heart of the Persian court as courtesan to King Darius. But when the Macedon army conquers his
homeland Bagoas finds freedom at the hands of their golden young commander whose name is
already becoming a legend: Alexander. Their encounter sparks a passionate devotion that shapes
the Persian boy's future - and deepens into a relationship that will sustain them both through
assassination plots political intrigue and the threat of Alexander's own restless ambition.
This is a spellbinding tale of power loyalty and loss - a vision of history transfigured by
love. 'I love to find queer representation in historical fiction . . . Renault's eye for
intimacy is amazing ' DOUGLAS STUART 'Nowhere else in fiction have Alexander's beauty and
charisma blazed with such potency' TOM HOLLAND 'Passionate and captivating' SEÁN HEWITT
