Les Éthiopiennes, ou Théagènes et Chariclée, tomes 1-3
"Les Éthiopiennes, ou Théagènes et Chariclée, tomes 1-3" by Heliodorus of Emesa is an ancient Greek novel written in the 220s or 370s AD. When a white-skinned princess is born to the king and queen of Ethiopia, she is abandoned to avoid scandal. Raised as a priestess in distant Delphi, she falls in love with a noble stranger and flees with him. Their journey becomes a perilous odyssey through pirates, bandits, and dangers that ultimately lead them back to Ethiopia—where fate awaits.