Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University under the tutelage and praise of esteemed
classics professor Christopher Eccles. And now his support is the one thing she can rely on:
her job search has yielded nothing and her devotion to her work has just cost her her
boyfriend Ben. Yet shortly before her thesis defense Tessa learns that Chris has sabotaged
her career-and realizes their relationship is not at all what she believed. Driven by what he
mistakes as love for Tessa Chris has ensured that no other institution will offer her a
position keeping her at Oxford with him. His tactics grow more invasive as he determines to
prove he has her best interests at heart. Meanwhile Tessa scrambles to undo the damage-and in
the process makes a startling discovery about an obscure second-century Latin poet that could
launch her into academic stardom finally freeing her from Chris's influence. A contemporary
reimagining of the Daphne and Apollo myth The Latinist is a page-turning exploration of power
ambition and the intertwining of love and obsession.