Hope's Reward

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Must the secrets we hide destroy our hope for a future? </em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For a gladiator slave each time you step on the sand it's kill or die. When Ursus decides to follow Jesus he must choose to die the next time he's ordered to fight...or run away. He runs taking again his childhood name Matti. But he isn't just trying to escape. He's running to Thessalonica where he hopes to find other Christians like the woman who led him to faith.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Felicia's new husband Falco almost kills her in a fit of rage her uncle won't help her end the marriage with his business partner. He will send her to her sister in Thessalonica but only if she tells no one she plans to divorce Falco and demand her dowry back before she gets there. When Matti interrupts a robbery too late to save Felicia's money for traveling by sea he offers to bodyguard and escort her overland to their mutual destination.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After Matti risks everything to save her from Falco's assassins Felicia fears taking the danger to her sister's family. When his Christian friends take them in she discovers the deepest desires of her heart. But will the secrets of Matti's past make a future together impossible?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dangerous times difficult friendships lives transformed by forgiveness and love</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Light in the Empire series follows the interconnected lives of five Roman families during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian. Each can be read stand-alone. The eleven 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.</span></p>