1st Century
The Fisherman’s Bride: The Untold Story of the Wife of Simon Peter
When Hasar, a rich merchant, makes an offer to marry the (deliberately unnamed) heroine, she is appalled. Not only is…
Bread of Angels
Lydia is the daughter of a well-established cloth dyer whose purple is unmatched. When her father is falsely accused of…
The Dog Who Was There
Barley is born in the wilds of Judea to a loving mother dog. Life starts off tough and challenging until…
The Roman Quests: The Archers of Isca
Britannia, AD 95. Fronto, Juba and Ursula, Roman refugees from the Emperor Domitian’s murder squad, are now living in a…
Eagles in the Storm
It is AD 15 and Arminius, the leader of the Cherusci tribe, has finally succeeded in welding together the disparate German…
A Hope at the End of the World
In 1944, with WWII raging, two Polish orphans, 16-year-old Luzyna and 19-year-old Helena, are surviving in the relative safety of…
Vindolanda
AD 98. Flavius Ferox is a Briton and a Roman centurion, a Regionarius of a small district at the furthest…
Feast of Sorrow
As a slave about to go on the auction block in 1st-century Rome, Thrasius has few hopes for his future.…
Betrayal: The Centurions I
68 AD, a time of turmoil in the Roman Empire. Nero has committed suicide, and Galba has taken the throne.…
A Villa Far from Rome
Editors' choice
AD 66: the Romans have conquered much of Britain, and the tribes live uncomfortably beside a powerful military force. Insurrections…
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