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The Daughter of Rome

by Angela Hunt Book 3 in the The Emissaries series.

First published 2025

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Calandra assists her celebrated sculptor father in Nero’s Rome, where imperial commissions promise honour and dependence in equal measure. The Great Fire destroys the city she understands and leaves her reliant on Christians whose care challenges everything she has been taught about their strange worship and social standing.

As Nero begins his Golden House and redirects popular anger towards Christians, Calandra’s family receives opportunity from the same regime that threatens her new friends. She must choose whether artistic ambition and filial loyalty can justify silence. The trilogy closes by presenting Christian witness as costly solidarity during persecution, not merely private conviction.

Historical Periods

Great Fire of Rome64 CE Neronian Persecution of Christians64–68 CE

Genres

Christian Fiction Court & Political Fiction Historical Sagas Historical Thriller Romance War Fiction

Historical people

Nero37–68

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