the house with the golden door elodie harper

This second book wasn’t the happily ever after for Amara even though she’s a freedwoman now. As Amara falls for someone she can’t openly love, things get more dangerous and riskier than ever before. There’s also her former master Felix who seems determined to keep his power over Amara even now. But even though she has more now she had before, Amara is haunted by past in the Wolf Den and what happened to her close friend Dido who died at the end of book one. Now Amara has a beautiful home, money and her own slaves which she has complicated feelings over. Spoilers are ahead so be prepared! After the end of the first book, The Wolf Den, where Amara got freed, she’s living as her new patron’s courtesan and has more security than she ever had before as a prostitue in Felix’s brothel. It’s now in my top three of favorite books of the year!įirst a little description of the story. I absolutely loved my time reading the book and it of course made me crave more. But that’s why I’m so very glad that this wasn’t the case with The House with the Golden Door by Elodie Harper.

Sequels can often be disappointing and not live up to the first book which has happened to me more times than I can count. We return to Pompeii for the second instalment in Elodie Harper’s Wolf Den Trilogy, set in the town’s lupanar and reimagining the lives of women long overlooked. Yet finding love may prove to be the most dangerous act of all.

In order to be free, she will need to be as ruthless as he is.Īmara knows her existence in Pompeii is subject to Venus, the goddess of love. Amara longs for the women she was forced to leave behind and worse, finds herself pursued by the man who once owned her. The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering, yet precarious…Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the town’s most notorious brothel, but now her existence depends on the affections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as she once thought.Īt night she dreams of the wolf den, still haunted by her past.

The house with the golden door elodie harper