Fiona Forsyth

In 45 B.C.E. Rome is under a Dictator. Caesar has emerged victorious from a bloody Civil War, and Romans are ready for peace. So, when Lucius Sestius Quirinalis, an aspiring lawyer, is called into his father’s study one autumn morning, he is thinking of nothing more than the family’s latest ca...

Rome, 23 BCE In the depths of serious illness, the Emperor Augustus is forced to rethink how he governs the city. He calls upon the most unlikely helper. Lucius Sestius Quirinalis has made it through conspiracy and civil war and wants nothing more than to drink himself happy in the Italian c...

The Battle of Philippi is over. Octavian and Mark Antony have defeated the Republic. A cause and a generation of young noblemen have been lost. Lucius Sestius, a lawyer embroiled in the Ides of March, has been driven from Rome by his allegiance to Caesar’s murderers. He has seen his commanders d...