Welcome to the origins of the Lore of the Lucius Ring, tying together the USA Today best seller With Dreams, which was the tale of a lost love from the husband’s perspective, and now Of Love and Legend, telling of that same lost love from the wife’s perspective.

In the prologue, we meet Theodosia, wife of the Roman centurion Lucius. Knowing her husband was killed in Britannia, the only thing Theodosia has left of him is their daughter and the ring he gave her, an ancient ring said to bear its own curse.

The Lucius Ring, passed down through the females of Theodosia’s family, makes its way to medieval England where a highway robber steals it and gifts it to his true love. But secrets, and more curses, threaten to tear the couple a part. Will they be able to be together or will the curse of the Lucius Ring end their love forever?