[Our Eternal Curse 01] • Our Eternal Curse I

The story centres on Julia, a beautiful but insecure peasant girl who acts as the unseen catalyst for true historical events during pre Christian Rome.

At the age of sixteen Julia has a chance encounter with Lucius Cornelius Sulla, one of Rome's greatest Generals and sworn enemy of Gaius Marius. Julia is enticed to Rome where she is left in the care of his house slaves for three years while Sulla fights a war in the East.

Julia dedicates herself to education and improving herself for Sulla's return. After his homecoming Julia is devastated to find that Sulla regards her as a mere concubine and the shock of his mistreatment destroys her already fragile self esteem.

Terrible food shortages follow the War. Food from other countries in the Republic should have provided an alternative supply but Rome's preoccupation with years of fighting has allowed the great ocean to become dominated by pirates.

Harnessing her inherent genius and manipulating the son of General Gaius Marius, Julia becomes rich and powerful. She uses her influence to have the black market and the pirates decimated, leaving her as the unseen power behind the food supply for Rome.

Now one of the richest people in Rome, Julia uses her funds to manipulate the Senate and when the time is right she provides the evidence which proves that Sulla deliberately caused the war to benefit himself financially. He is immediately banished by an angry Senate.

Much to Julia's surprise and disappointment beating her nemesis does not provide an end to her hurt; it is simply the beginning of an even longer and more painful journey.