Girl in the arena : a novel containing intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril / Lise Haines.

Author: Haines, Lise.

Edition: 1st U.S. ed.

Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.

ISBN: 9781599903729
1599903725

Description: 324 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject: Gladiators Fiction.
Marriage Fiction.
Sex role Fiction.
Fame Fiction.
People with mental disabilities Fiction.
Family life Massachusetts Fiction.
Massachusetts Fiction.

Summary: In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.