The Last Caesar: Roman Historical Fiction

AD 68. The tyrant emperor Nero has no son and no heir.

Suddenly there’s the very real possibility that Rome might become a Republic once more. But the ambitions of a few are about to bring chaos and bloodshed to the many.

Among them is a hero of the campaign against Boudicca. Aulus Caecina Severus. Caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow Caesar’s dynasty, he commits treason, raises a rebellion, faces torture and intrigue – all supposedly for the good of Rome. But the boundary between such selflessness and self preservation is far from clear, and keeping to the dangerous path he’s chosen requires all Severus’ skills as a cunning soldier and increasingly deft politician.

Looking back on the dark time that history remembers as ‘The Year of the Four Emperors’, Severus recalls the part he played – for good or ill – in plunging the mighty Roman Empire into anarchy and civil war...