She speaks volumes without needing to say much, meaning any work for the imagination of the reader is effortless. It is a remarkable talent to not just be able to create a rare, genuinely authentic presentation of Ancient Pompeii, but also to be able to launch readers right but back into the heart of a protagonist’s tale many, many months after the first novel. 'Absolutely stunning and utterly gripping!' Buki PapillonĮlodie Harper captures the brutal, sparkling, ordinary everyday life in Ancient Rome, the raw enchantment that makes the ancient world so irresistible to us even thousands of years later, and practically gift-wraps it to us in this pleasure of a sequel. 'A spell-binding novel that brings Pompeii back to life and explores enslavement in all its forms' Anna Mazzola
'Gripping and richly imagined, this is spellbinding storytelling' Louise O'Neill Harper's recreation of this ancient world continues to thrill' Observer 'Vivid, unsentimental and compelling' The Times A brilliant sequel to The Wolf Den' Jennifer Saint Praise for The House with the Golden Door: The House with the Golden Door is the stunning second novel in Elodie Harper's celebrated Wolf Den Trilogy, which reimagines the lives of women who have long been overlooked. Yet falling in love herself may prove to be her downfall. In order to be truly free, she will need to be as ruthless as he is.Īmara knows she can draw strength from Venus, the goddess of love.
By day, she is pursued by her former slavemaster. At night she dreams of the wolf den, and the women she left behind. She now has a house, fine clothes, servants – but all of these are gifts from her patron, hers for as long as she keeps her place in his affections.Īs she adjusts to this new life, Amara is still haunted by her past. What will she risk for power?Īmara has escaped her life as a slave in Pompeii's most notorious brothel.
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