Palatine

While Emperor Nero plays with his new water organ and a cross-dressing eunuch, his wily secretary Epaphroditus manages the governance issues.

However, times are changing.

Praetorian Prefect Nymphidius Sabinus, a man so straight he'd make a decent spirit level, is disgusted by the moral degeneracy of Nero's court. Motivated by the traditional Roman values of valor and nobility, and with a stack of mother issues to rival Nero's, Sabinus is determined to remove the Emperor from a throne he does not deserve.

Blinded by his own righteousness, Sabinus is ignorant of what he has unleashed — The Year of the Four Emperors!

Palatine is the first in a four-book series examining The Year of the Four Emperors from multiple character viewpoints.