NEXUS

<p><strong><em>Exile - Living death to a Roman</em></strong></p><p>AD 395. In a Christian Roman Empire worshipping the traditional gods is a death sentence. Three Romans Maelia Lucius and Galla faithful to their beliefs in Rome's thousand-year religion and values must choose. Do they stay hoping for the best or leave Rome forever - a rupture from everything they know - to search for a safer life?</p><p><strong>Maelia Mitela </strong> her dead husband condemned as a pagan traitor leaving her on the brink of ruin grieves for her son lost to the Christians and is fearful of committing to another man.</p><p><strong>Lucius Apulius</strong> ex-tribune faithful to the old gods and fixed on his memories of his wife Julia's homeland of Noricum will risk everything to protect his children's future.</p><p><strong>Galla Apulia</strong> loyal to her father and only too aware of not being the desired son is desperate to escape Rome after the humiliation of betrayal by her feckless husband.</p><p><strong>For all of them the only way to survive is exile.</strong></p><p><em>Sequel to JULIA PRIMA (Historical Novel Society Editors' Choice). Set at the dusk of the Roman Empire the origin story behind the modern Roma Nova thriller series.</em></p>