The sequels to The Beacon at Alexandria are The Bearkeeper's Daughter, 1987 (please see separate entry) and Imperial Purple, 1988. Imperial Purple is also set in Constantinople in the fifth century A.D. The protagonist is a gifted young woman silk weaver, Demetrias, who lives in the city of Tyre, but who is kidnapped and taken to Constantinople when she is given the order to weave a cloak of imperial purple, forbidden for ordinary mortals to wear. After many life and freedom-threatening adventures in the vividly depicted Eastern Roman city, she embarks on yet another purple robe, this one commissioned by the Empress Pulcheria.