From Colleen McCullough, the acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Thorn Birds, " comes an epic and remarkable saga of great events, intrigues and personages; the story of Gaiua Julius Caesar--the brilliant, beloved patrician who was history--and the women he adored, used and destroyed on his irresistible rise to prominence.

New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough re-creates an extraordinary epoch before the mighty Republic belonged to Julius Caesar--when Rome's noblewomen were his greatest conquest.

His victories were legend--in battle and bedchamber alike. Love was a political weapon he wielded cunningly and ruthlessly in his private war against enemies in the forum. Genius, general, patrician, Gaius Julius Caesar was history. His wives bought him influence. He sacrificed his beloved daughter on the altar of ambition. He burned for the cold-hearted mistress he could never dare trust. Caesar's women all knew--and feared--his power. He adored them, used them, destroyed them on his irresistible rise to prominence. And one of them would seal his fate.