Hypatia
An old man, fleeing an ambush by hill bandits, seeks shelter from a winter storm. But this old man is very far from ordinary. Not only does he look and move like a man less than half his age, he is a king a very unusual King. He had once been a simple soldier with a somewhat disreputable girlfriend in a backwater city-state on the outskirts of civilization. He did not expect he would rescue the most beautiful and influential prostitute in town, or a become a sudden husband, or a cold-blooded murderer, or a brave and dashing brigand, or a bold abductor of beautiful (and equally bold) women, or a daring thief who purloined a golden treasure from right under the noses of the most powerful empire the world had ever known. And he certainly did not expect he would become a King.