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The first novel in a series set in first-century Rome, Roma Amor is about a young nobleman who wants a simple life of fighting barbarians after his older brother's suicide. However, his heart and honor are tested by a strong-willed barbarian girl and by his powerful father, who forces him to take his brother’s place with the mercurial new Emperor, Caligula Caesar.

With the death of the despotic Tiberius in 37 A.D., expectations are high that his successor will restore pride and vigor to the young Roman Empire. But although 25-year-old Caligula yearns to be a "good" Princeps, beloved of everyone, his upbringing amid treachery, mutiny, and murder has made him perilously unstable.

Marcus Carinna was a womanizing scoundrel until the suicide of his older brother, Publius, drove him to become an officer in a Danube legion. Now his father, a powerful Senator who helped bring Caligula to the throne, has summoned him back to Rome to take his brother's place at the new Princeps' side. Complicating Marcus's task is his desire to make amends for Publius, once Caligula's closest friend, whose treasonous talk could have cost the young Caligula his life.

Marcus will grapple with betrayal, attempted murder, and an irresistible attraction to an enemy's captured daughter before he learns the truth about his brother's death. Too late, he discovers why Caligula told him when they met, "The point, O Theseus, is not to learn what waits at the heart of the maze. The point is to escape alive."

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