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Sword of Rome
Book 4 in the Gaius Valerius Verrens series.
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In AD 68, Gaius Valerius Verrens returns to Rome as Nero’s reign collapses and the empire prepares for a peaceful succession that never comes. Galba’s brief rule begins in bloodshed, and his overthrow opens the Year of the Four Emperors, when armies rather than institutions determine who will hold imperial power.
Serving Otho, Valerius is sent north to persuade his former friend Vitellius to halt the legions advancing in his name. The journey through a divided empire becomes a struggle against civil war, private vengeance and rapidly changing loyalties, with Valerius forced to decide which obligations still matter when every claimant describes rebellion as duty.
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