The Spear and the Storm

Name: The Spear and the Storm
Rating: 2.5 (5 reviews)

by Michael Livingston Book 2 in the The Shards series.

First published 2016

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Following the fall of Alexandria and the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, their children are carried to Rome as captives. Cleopatra Selene survives and is married to Juba of Numidia, an alliance intended to bind two royal heirs to Augustus’s new imperial order. When Augustus campaigns in northern Spain, he calls on Juba’s knowledge of the Trident of Poseidon, one of the supernatural relics whose power can turn military conquest into catastrophe.

Selene’s determination to preserve her mother’s legacy competes with her developing loyalty to Juba and with the demands of Roman politics. The Cantabrian campaign becomes another front in the hidden struggle for the Shards, where victory may require surrendering the very weapon Augustus wants to control. First published as The Gates of Hell, the novel connects the consolidation of Augustus’s rule with the creation of a new royal future for Cleopatra’s surviving daughter.