Two more Praetorians, followed by a very expensively dressed old woman, came into sight. Jupiter’s brass balls! That’s the Poisoner herself – the Dowager…

Bleda’s man made the first move, putting his victim in a choke hold. The victim grasped his assailant’s wrist and…

Marcella was more the mother that you imagined – definitely not the mother I grew up with. My mother was the perfect mother…

My father had run into the Dwarf years ago in the private Imperial library and they had discussed the Dwarf’s battle-axe. What my father was…

As far as I could tell the transition from boy to man only meant that I now guarded our sheep…

I had been drafted as a healer – I was furious. All Anemoi have some ability in healing, and I was more…

‘Slaving away under some fat master for years while he takes credit for everything you do would be soul-crushing,’ Timo reasoned…

The job had been meticulously planned: The guards had been bribed, the servants evening meal drugged, and the rich Patrician family was…

I leaned forward in my camp chair and contemplated the back of the hunched figure occupying the far side of my…