En la tempestuosa Roma del siglo I d.C., los atemorizados ciudadanos intentan sobrevivir al reinado de Domiciano, un emperador dispuesto siempre a condenar a muerte a cualquiera que pudiera hacerle sombra. En este ambiente turbulento se fragua una conspiración para asesinarlo.

La conjura es complicada de trazar y muy peligrosa para todos los implicados, entre los que se encuentran Trajano y Domicia, la emperatriz, pieza clave en esta conspiración. Las mayores dificultades estriban en burlar la guardia pretoriana. Pero un grupo de gladiadores sin nada que perder, serán los encargados de encontrar la fisura.

Trajano, primer emperador hispano de la Historia, es conocido sobre todo por conducir al Imperio romano a su máxima extensión. Lo que no se suele conocer tanto es su heroicidad más valiosa: la capacidad de Trajano para sobrevivir al reinado de Tito Flavio Domiciano, un emperador débil y paranoico siempre dispuesto a condenar a muerte a cualquiera que destacara en el ejército o en la política.

Pero ¿qué ocurrió para que Roma aceptara por emperador a alguien no nacido en la misma Roma, sino a alguien proveniente de las lejanas y agrestes tierras de Hispania? Modificar el curso de la Historia es prácticamente imposible. Sólo unos pocos se atreven a intentarlo y sólo uno entre millones, siempre de forma inesperada para todos, es capaz de conseguirlo.

Bienvenidos al mundo de Marco Ulpio Trajano.

First-century Rome: A ruthless emperor watches over all—and fixes his gaze on one young woman...

Thea is a slave girl from Judaea, purchased as a toy for the spiteful heiress Lepida Pollia. Now she has infuriated her mistress by capturing the attention of Rome's newest and most savage gladiator—and though his love brings Thea the first happiness of her life, their affair ends quickly when a jealous Lepida tears them apart.

Remaking herself as a singer for Rome's aristocrats, Thea unwittingly attracts another admirer: the charismatic Emperor of Rome. But the passions of an all-powerful man come with a heavy price, and Thea finds herself fighting for both her soul and her sanity.

Many have tried to destroy the Emperor: a vengeful gladiator, an upright senator, a tormented soldier, a Vestal Virgin. But in the end, the life of Domitian lies in the hands of one woman: the Emperor's mistress.

A Warrior without Equal, a Woman without Options

Triumphs in the Coliseum—and society bedchambers—made gladiator Alexius of Iolcos famous for his brutal skill and womanizing ways. Yet the only woman who intrigues him is Tiberia the Younger, who now needs his help.

Protecting Tiberia places Alexius in the greatest danger he has ever known—from her vengeful father and his own heart...

Becoming a temple priestess may be an honor, but Tibi can't bear to surrender her freedom or her newfound faith. Alexius's solution stuns her. Marriage…to a gladiator!

Scorned by her noble family, Tibi always felt unworthy. But with her champion by her side, can she accept—and give—a love strong enough to vanquish their enemies?

Quintus Ambustus is a slave, while Adiona Leonia is a wealthy socialite. He fights for his life in the gladiator's ring, and she plays cutthroat politics in Rome's high society. He's sacrificed everything for his Christian faith; she believes in nothing and no one.

But when Adiona's life is threatened, Quintus is chosen as her bodyguard, and their fascination with one another shocks them both. Neither thought to find joy in a match society would condemn, but their feelings cannot be denied. Have they lost too much to believe in happiness? Or will their growing love let them leave the past behind and build a new future together?

Cicero returns to continue his struggle to grasp supreme power in the state of Rome. Amidst treachery, vengeance, violence, and treason, this brilliant lawyer, orator, and philosopher finally reaches the summit of all his ambitions. Cicero becomes known as the world's first professional politician, using his compassion and deviousness to overcome all obstacles.

Compelling historical fiction at its best: Harris employs historical detail and an engrossing plot to give readers a man who is by turns a sympathetic hero and compromising manipulator who sets himself up for his own massive, violent ruin. This trilogy charges forward, propelled by the strength of Harris's stunningly fascinating prose.

On the eve of Cicero’s inauguration as consul of Rome, a grisly discovery sends fear rippling through a city already racked by unrest. A young slave boy has been felled by a hammer, his throat slit and his organs removed, apparently as a human sacrifice. For Cicero, the ill omens of this hideous murder only increase his dangerous situation: elected leader by the people but despised by the heads of the two rival political camps.

Caught in a shell game that leaves him forever putting out fires only to have them ignite elsewhere, Cicero plays for the future of the republic…and his life. There is a plot to assassinate him, abetted by a rising young star of the Roman senate named Gaius Julius Caesar—and it will take all the embattled consul’s wit, strength, and force of will to stop the plot and keep Rome from becoming a dictatorship.

He won his fame—and his freedom—in the gory pits of Rome's Colosseum. Yet the greatest challenge for the once-legendary gladiator Caros Viriathos comes to him through a slave. His slave, the beautiful and mysterious Pelonia Valeria.

Her secret brings danger to his household but offers Caros a love like he's never known. Should anyone learn she is a Christian, Pelonia will be executed. Her faith threatens not only herself, but her master. Can she convince a man who found fame through unforgiving brutality to show mercy?

And when she's ultimately given the choice, will Pelonia choose freedom or the love of a gladiator?

The Forgotten Legion is an epic Roman novel that weaves the destinies of three men and one woman, all bound in servitude to the Republic.

Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is violated by a drunken nobleman. At the age of thirteen, they are sold off: Romulus to a gladiator school, and Fabiola into prostitution, where she captures the attention of one of the most influential men in Rome.

Tarquinius is an Etruscan warrior and soothsayer, an enemy of Rome, yet doomed to fight for the Republic in the Forgotten Legion. Brennus is a Gaul whose entire family was slain by the Romans. He rises to become one of the most renowned and feared gladiators of his time, serving as a mentor to the young slave Romulus, who yearns for escape and revenge.

Their lives are intricately intertwined in a captivating tale that begins in a Rome plagued by corruption, violence, and political strife. It concludes at the very borders of the known world, where Romulus, Brennus, and Tarquinius face the Parthians and insurmountable challenges.

Publio Cornelio Escipión, conocido por el apodo de Africanus, era considerado por muchos el heredero de las cualidades militares atribuidas a su padre y a su tío. Pero de ellos no sólo había recibido estos magníficos atributos, sino también algunos enemigos, entre otros Asdrúbal, el hermano de Aníbal, y el general púnico Giscón, quienes harían lo posible por acabar con su enemigo y masacrar sus ejércitos.

Los enemigos también acechaban en Roma, donde el senador Quinto Fabio Máximo, en una jugada maestra, obliga a Escipión a aceptar la demencial tarea de liderar las legiones V y VI que permanecían desde hacía tiempo olvidadas en Sicilia. Así, según creía el senador, lograría deshacerse del último de los Escipiones.

Pero otro era el destino de las legiones malditas que, de la mano de Africanus, lograrían cambiar un capítulo de la historia.

When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Marcus Cicero—an ambitious young lawyer and spellbinding orator, who at the age of twenty-seven is determined to attain imperium—supreme power in the state.

Of all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. And Tiro—the inventor of shorthand and author of numerous books, including a celebrated biography of his master (which was lost in the Dark Ages)—was always by his side. Compellingly written in Tiro's voice, Imperium is the re-creation of his vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid detail the story of Cicero's quest for glory, competing with some of the most powerful and intimidating figures of his—or any other—age: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and the many other powerful Romans who changed history.

Robert Harris, the world's master of innovative historical fiction, lures us into a violent, treacherous world of Roman politics at once exotically different from and yet startlingly similar to our own—a world of Senate intrigue and electoral corruption, special prosecutors and political adventurism—to describe how one clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable man fought to reach the top.

The acclaimed author of Emperor: The Gates of Rome returns to the extraordinary life of Julius Caesar in a new novel that takes us further down the path to glory... as Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, and leader.

In a sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them: their leader, Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who dared to kidnap Julius Caesar for ransom. Now, as Caesar exacts his revenge and builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Marcus Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the assassination of a dictator.

Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden women. Now they will be united again by a shock wave from the north, where a gladiator named Spartacus is building an army of seventy thousand slaves—to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself.

After the exotic eroticism of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare returned to Rome for one of his final tragedies, and the change could not have been more dramatic. Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare's harshest and most challenging studies of power, politics, and masculinity, based around the life of Caius Marcius.

Based on the Roman chronicles of Plutarch's Lives and Livy's History of Rome, the play is set in the early years of the Roman Republic. Its famous opening scene, particularly admired by Bertolt Brecht, portrays its citizens as starving and rebellious, horrified by the arrogant and dismissive attitude of Caius Marcius, one of Rome's most valiant but also politically naive soldiers.

Spurred on by his ambitious mother Volumnia, Caius takes the city of Corioles, is renamed Coriolanus in honor of his victory, and is encouraged to run for the senate. However, his contempt for the citizens, whom he calls "scabs" and "musty superfluity," ultimately leads to his exile and destructive alliance with his deadly foe, Aufidius.

Despite its relative unpopularity, Coriolanus is a fascinating study of both public and personal life. Its language is dense and complex, as is its representation of the tensions built into the fabric of Roman political life. Yet it also contains extraordinarily intimate scenes between Coriolanus and both his mother, who ultimately proves "most mortal" to her own son, and his enemy Aufidius, whose "rapt heart" is happier to see Coriolanus than his own wife.

One of Shakespeare's darker and more disturbing plays.

Junia, the beautiful daughter of a Roman senator, enjoyed the best that life had to offer in first century Rome. She was grateful and anxious to please her family, a dutiful and obedient young woman of privilege. That is, until a chance friendship and its abrupt end sparks an interest in a new religion that will lead to a destiny she never imagined.

Junia is a fictional exploration of life at the very beginning of Christianity from a very personal point of view. It shows how the attractions of the new religion were accompanied by social struggle, family division, and the risk of a disgraceful death to those courageous enough to embrace it.

"Fortune's Favorites" is a captivating historical fiction novel set in the tumultuous times of ancient Rome. Blessed by the gods at birth with wealth and privilege, a new generation of Romans vies for greatness amidst the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic.

Amidst this backdrop, one figure towers above them all—a brilliant and beautiful boy whose ambition is unequaled, whose love is legendary, and whose glory is Rome's. This is the story of a boy who would one day be called Caesar.

Join the journey through a cataclysmic upheaval, where the chosen and the cursed are entangled in a savage struggle for power. Experience the ambition, love, and destiny that shape the course of history in this epic tale of ancient Rome.

The Grass Crown is an epic tale of ambition, power, and betrayal set in the heart of ancient Rome. This gripping drama follows the life of Marius, the legendary general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and achieved the unprecedented feat of becoming consul six times. However, as his influence wanes, a deadly enmity brews between him and his former ally, Sulla, who is now plotting his own rise to power.

Amidst this personal conflict, Rome faces existential threats both from within and from neighboring Italian states, as well as from the ferocious Asian conqueror. Births, deaths, prophecies, and rivalries intertwine to create a whirlwind of drama, offering readers a remarkable insight into the passion and torment of one of history’s greatest civilizations.

The allure of ancient Rome comes to life in this seductive and mysterious romance. Set in Rome, 40 A.D., during the reign of Emperor Caligula, this tale follows Marco Quinto Rufo, the second most powerful man in Rome, and Lívia Urgulanila, a woman with a past she wishes to forget.

He is a hardened man from the Germanic forests, handsome and strong, knowing no fear or limits. She is a refined and arrogant aristocrat whose destiny is already written. But the gods have decided otherwise. When Rufo takes her for himself, he cannot remotely imagine the consequences of his actions.

Rome is not a province where everything, including abducting a woman, is allowed. Even if Caligula himself decides to give her to him, conquering Lívia's heart will be the most difficult and daring task Rufo has ever undertaken. Will Lívia surrender her heart to a cruel man who hesitates at nothing?