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Enter Nero's opulent Court with all its graspers, schemers and panderers. Claudia Acte, Nero's favorite mistress, converts to the new religion from Judea.
Claudia Acte has achieved the highest levels that a i>hetairi /i>can hope for: she is the Emperor's favorite mistress, Traded in a secret deal to the next rising star, Ofonius Tigellinus, so that Poppaea can lure Nero into marriage, Acte is suddenly plunged into slavery so debasing that her only hope lies in escape. She walks away from her life of degradation into a new world from which she can never return. Recaptured, re-enslaved, but redeemed, Acte's quiet influence spreads throughout her circle and excepts no one, not even the Commander of the Praetorian Guard, Ofonius Tigellinus. | |  | | Northwind
Enter Ninth Century Europe at the dawn of the Viking age.
Moira agrees to become Eirik Ivarsson's wife and accompanies him to his homeland, where she discovers a way of life incomprehensible to her. Northwind is her struggle to understand this new world and her adventures as she accompanies Eirik and his brothers on their voyage to make their fortunes, a voyage that takes them all the way to Byzantium and back home to Norway, where they must face a dark destiny awaiting them.
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Daneh, daughter of a Druid priestess, surrenders her heart and her heritage to the Roman General Corbulo. She accompanies him to Rome as his mistress, where she learns the cruel lesson that dreams can't overcome an unbending legal system.
Enter First Century Imperial Rome under the reign of Claudius. The fledgling general Domitius Corbulo is sent to serve with the seasoned General Flavius Vespasian to subdue the rebellious province of Britain. There he meets the strange, wild daughter of his host.. Daneh decides he is the man she has been waiting for, and accompanies him to Rome as his mistress. While there, under the stern tutelage of Corbulo's patrician aunt, Daneh attracts the interest of Catonius Merullus, close friend to Claudius and the leading legalist of his day.
Corbulo's family frowns upon his liason with t | |  | | The Shadow of the Phoenix
The Empress Eudoxia and the Vandal King Gizeric battle for the future as the Western Empire collapses and the Dark Ages are born.
u>The Shadow of the Phoenix /u>covers five generations of remarkable women during the chaotic, blood-soaked century that followed the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the rise of the Germanic kingdoms. The story begins with Gizeric, the first Germanic King in history, and Eudoxia, the Empress of the Western World and widow of Valentinian III, and follows their descendants to the rise of the Avars in Eastern Europe. This is an epic saga of hatred and revenge, love and redemption, set amidst the collapse of the ancient world and the birth of the Dark Ages.
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Footsteps
by Brendan O'Brien
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 Ireland 1967. The Summer of love. Or was it?
A holiday weekend. Amazing weather. American student Dakota Lacey is hiking around Kerry.
But there’s a sinister, dark side to the atmosphere. Lone female hikers are being brutally attacked. |
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