YOUNG SLAVEBOY SHAVA wants only to become Roma’s man
and Roma’s soldier—the sooner the better. He’s unaware of being surrounded
by people with secret and all-consuming claims on his life—
either for a glorious future beyond anything he’s ever imagined,
or to sacrifice his future for their own twisted purposes.
For Mahrona—who’s forbidden to have any contact with her son Shava—
conflict is constant with her master, Roma’s General Tundus.
As her hopes die for escaping that man’s oppression,
a way finally opens to seal the general’s death.
Meanwhile Tundus, thanks to unintended help from Mahrona,
encounters a breakthrough for pushing to completion
his long-pursued plan for a surprise strike against Parthia,
which he’s convinced will restore Roma to its divinely appointed mission
of seeking world governance and world peace.
But a secret maneuver meant to clinch the Emperor’s approval
for the plan—looks certain instead to destroy it.
Can a slavewoman escape a foreign world she’s come to hate— and restore her son to his thrilling destiny in a homeland he knows nothing of?
Can that slaveboy recover his greatest dream when his heroes let him down?
What cost is too high when their visionary master pursues his grandly impossible dream?
