The Last Villa

<p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A story of love family tensions danger faith endurance and change during one the ‎ ‎</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>most turbulent times in the early history of Britain.‎</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Villa Arcadius is a prosperous Romano-Briton estate in south Wales a remote province of the ‎mighty Roman Empire for more than 300 years. Now in AD 395 the Empire is on the point of ‎collapse. Entangled in power struggles and civil war it faces enormous pressures from migrating ‎tribes massing on its borders. In Britain the depleted and undisciplined Roman army offers little ‎protection from lethal raids by Scoti pirates and marauding Picts. The demise of civic ‎administration is causing wealthy families to abandon their properties and leave Britain. ‎Christianity may now be the official state religion but the Church is embroiled in bitter theological ‎disputes and heresies.‎</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Yet even in chaotic times individual lives go on. Families grow and change; everyone ‎ ‎must adapt to changing circumstances.‎</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The devout domina of the villa Galeria is committing her wealth to building a just community. ‎Her intellectual son Flavius is focused on an alliance with the neighboring Celtic kingdom for ‎mutual protection and preserving the benefits of classical civilization. The heir to this realm the ‎stunningly beautiful widow Elen must find a husband. Her young son Dilectus is a threat to the ‎ambitions of rival warlords endangering him and his friends. Their coming-of-age means love for ‎him and Galeria's spirited granddaughter Claudia. To fulfill a life-long dream Galeria travels to ‎Rome to show Dilectus his heritage.‎</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Their timing could not have been worse. The Eternal City is about to fall into the hands ‎ ‎of the Visigoths. What will become of the last villa in Britannia?‎</span></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p></p>