Imperium Romanum

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Wolf Teat
2. Chapter Two - Sabine Smoke
3. Chapter Three - Steel and Kingship
4. Chapter Four - Blood and Backbone
5. Chapter Five - The Rubicon and the Rise of Dictators
6. Chapter Six - Augustus and the Birth of Empire
7. Chapter Seven - Fire, Madness, and the Fall of the Julii
8. Chapter Eight - The Year of the Four Emperors
9. Chapter Nine - Vespasian, the Straight Shooter
10. Chapter Ten - Bread, Blood, and the Birth of the Colosseum
11. Chapter Eleven - Fire and Stone: Titus, Vesuvius, and the Test of Power
12. Chapter Twelve - Domitian: Shadow of Greatness, Echo of Tyranny
13. Chapter Thirteen - Nerva: The Emperor Chosen by Fear
14. Chapter Fourteen - Trajan: The Architect of Empire
15. Chapter Fifteen - Hadrian: The Wall Builder and the Wanderer
16. Chapter Sixteen - Antoninus Pius: The Quiet Guardian
17. Chapter Seventeen - Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher King
18. Chapter Eighteen - Commodus: The End of an Era

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Wolf Teat BEFORE EMPIRE, BEFORE legions, before the world bent beneath Roman law, there were two abandoned boys… and a she-wolf with milk in her veins and fire in her soul. Their mother? A vestal virgin. Their father? Mars—the god of war himself. Their sentence? Death. Their salvation? Teeth and teat. They were tossed to the river like afterthoughts, twin cries swallowed by the Tiber's current. But fate had no interest in letting them die quietly. The wild called. And from the cave of the Lupercal, a wolf emerged—not to feast, but to nurse. Her fangs should’ve been the end of them. Instead, they became her kin. Let that sink in: Rome was raised on milk and myth. On instinct,...