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Written in Blood
Book 3 in the The Publius Ovidius Mysteries series.
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Tomis, AD 14. Augustus is dead, Tiberius faces mutinous legions and the new emperor’s authority remains uncertain. Livia secretly entrusts Ovid with a boy named Gaius whose imperial descent could make him useful or dangerous to rival factions in Rome. Protecting the child offers Ovid a possible route home, but it also makes his household a target for Sejanus, now commander of the Praetorian Guard.
Philemon, Ovid’s former servant and Sejanus’s agent, arrives to test the exile’s loyalty. After Fabia recognises him, he disappears and is found murdered on the road from Tomis, leaving Ovid under suspicion. Ovid, Fabia and Avitius must solve the killing while concealing Gaius from the hostile legate Flaccus and imperial intelligence. The investigation also forces Ovid to reconstruct the political secret behind his original banishment, bringing the trilogy’s murder plot and its continuing question of exile to the same conclusion.
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