Faithful

Is the price of true friendship ever too high?In AD 122 Adela the fiery daughter of a Germanic chieftain is kidnapped and taken across the Roman frontier to be sold as a slave. When horse-trader Otto wins her while gambling with her kidnappers he entrusts her to his friend and trading partner Galen. Then Otto is kidnapped by the same men and Galen must track them half way across the Empire before his best friend loses a fight to the death in a Roman arena.Adela joins Galen in the chase hungry for vengeance. As the perilous journey deepens their friendship will the kind faithful man open her eyes to a life she never dreamed shed want?A trip to the heart of the Empire poses mortal danger to a man who follows Jesus especially when he must seek the help of an enemy of the faith for Otto to survive. Tiberius hunted Christians when he governed Germania Superior and banished his own son when he became one.When Tiberius learns sparing Galen offers a chance at reconciliation he joins the trio on their journey home. Can his animosity toward the followers of Jesus survive a trip with the Christian man whose courage and faithfulness demand his respect?Dangerous times difficult friendships lives transformed by forgiveness and loveFaithful is the fourth volume in the Light in the Empire series which follows the interconnected lives of four Roman families during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian. Each can be read as a stand-alone. The eight novels of the series will take you around the Empire from Germania and Britannia to Thracia Dacia and Judaea and of course to Rome itself.