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The Year of the Flame
Rome under Nero grows increasingly dangerous when members of the city’s senior priesthood are murdered one after another. Gaius Calidus Nerva, once a slave and now the acknowledged heir of the house he served, is drawn into the investigation as rumours of conspiracy spread through the capital. Every death raises the possibility that the killings are directed not merely against individuals but against the religious and political order that supports the emperor.
Calidus must move between priests, senators, ordinary Romans and Nero’s suspicious household while trying to identify who benefits from the fear. As the crisis deepens towards the Great Fire of Rome, personal danger and imperial politics become inseparable. The novel continues the series’ interest in freed status and social mobility while placing the murder investigation against one of the most notorious reigns in Roman history.
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