Alba is born into one of Rome's great noble houses. An incident leaves her stranded and in the care of a Thracian family. Years later, she is forcibly taken back to Rome to live with her aunt and uncle but is never accepted as one of the elites. Treated as a tainted outsider by everyone except the cunning, yet charming, Julius Caesar, a fateful event reunites her with her beloved childhood friend Alex. Alba is overjoyed until she realizes that Alex has become a hardened warrior, the leader of the slave revolt and the man people fear-Spartacus. Now, she must decide whether to join him in the hopes of reconnecting with the boy she once loved or stay in the luxurious Roman world of lies and deceit.