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Who's Who in Amber Road
A Novel of Love and Betrayal on the Roman Frontier
by Sherry Christie
Romans
MARCUS LICINIUS AQUILO (formerly Marcus Licinius Carinna) Once broad-stripe tribune of the Fifteenth Legion, son of the late Senator Titus Licinius Carinna
DIO His secretary, a freedman born in the family
CLEON Marcus’s chief bodyguard, a onetime gladiator
OLLIUS His other bodyguard, also a former gladiator
RUFUS His horse-boy, a mute Thracian slave
LEONNATUS of Narbo A wealthy Gallic trader in Carnuntum
*G. Calvisius SABINUS Governor of the province of Pannonia and its three legions
*Cornelia GALLA Sabinus’s wife, a cousin of Marcus’s father
L. Verginius PLACIDUS Senior surgeon of the Fifteenth Legion
POPPAEUS Legate commanding the Fifteenth Legion
Valerius SECUNDUS A narrow-stripe tribune of the Fifteenth Legion
Vatia GLABRIO A Special Cohort agent in Carnuntum
D. Aelius LAMIA Acting Special Cohort prefect for Rome’s northeastern provinces
SAXA Commander of the Praetorian Special Cohort (the imperial secret police) in Rome
*Gaius CAESAR (CALIGULA) Princeps of Rome
*AGRIPPINA Oldest of his three younger sisters
*DRUSILLA Caligula’s middle and favorite sister
*LIVILLA Youngest of Caligula’s sisters
*M. Aemilius LEPIDUS Drusilla’s husband; patron of Marcus’s family
Germans
AURIMA A junior priestess of Austro, recently a hostage in Rome
FRIDURIC Aurima’s brother
HELLE (Helewidis) Friduric’s wife
THANCMAR A miller, the older half-brother of Friduric and Aurima
AMMISIA of the Quadi Mother of Aurima, Friduric, and Thancmar, a priestess of Austro murdered six years earlier
INGIOMAR Ironhand Widower of Ammisia; Aurima’s and Friduric’s father
MAELO Ammisia’s brother; Ingiomar’s right-hand man
ODO Maelo’s adolescent son
*VANNIUS (Vannaz) King of the Marcomanni and Quadi
*VANGIO Vannius’s nephew
GISILA Vannius’s mother, the chief priestess of Austro
HROSWITHA Grandmother of Aurima and her siblings; a senior priestess of Austro
BERINHARD Lord of Grozhauga, a Quadi stronghold
CHLOTHAR Brother of Berinhard
* Historical figures
What's the story?
"Distant lightning flashed, faded, and flashed again. From the spine of the silvery horned beast grew a woman’s body, clad in dark robes. The green light glowed from a staff in her upraised hand. Petrified serpents, not hair, tangled on her head. Her face was horribly deformed, a black chaos of ruts and pustules. Light gleamed in lifeless eye-sockets shaped like tears." (Chapter 39)
Can a levelheaded Roman overcome the dark menace and magic of the Germanic wilderness? That’s the challenge Marcus Carinna confronts in Sherry Christie’s Amber Road: A Novel of Love and Betrayal on the Roman Frontier. Available in print, ebook, and audiobook formats.
