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Sons of Rome by Simon Turney and Gordon Doherty

15 October 2020 By Editor

Buy Sons of Rome (Rise of Emperors book 1) by Simon Turney and Gordon Doherty

As twilight descends on the third century AD, the Roman Empire is but a shadow of its former self.

Decades of usurping emperors, splinter kingdoms and savage wars have left the people beleaguered, the armies weary and the future uncertain.

And into this chaos Emperor Diocletian steps, reforming the succession to allow for not one emperor to rule the world, but four.

Meanwhile, two boys share a chance meeting in the great city of Treverorum as Diocletian’s dream is announced to the imperial court. Throughout the years that follow, they share heartbreak and glory as that dream sours and the empire endures an era of tyranny and dread.

Their lives are inextricably linked, their destinies ever-converging as they rise through Rome’s savage stations, to the zenith of empire. For Constantine and Maxentius, the purple robes beckon…

Sons of Rome (Rise of Emperors book 1) by Simon (SJA) Turney and Gordon Doherty is published as an ebook on 15 October, 2020.

SJA Turney’s short story The Praetorian features in the HWA collection Rubicon along with work by nine other well-known writers of fiction set in Ancient Rome.

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