Seeds of empire - Book V: The Age of Caesar

The war is won.The Republic is dead and the man who killed it sits alone in a palace, calling himself a god.Marcus has followed Caesar since childhood, watching his oldest friend become the greatest general Rome has ever known. But victory has changed Caesar in ways Marcus cannot ignore.From Alexandria to Africa, from the battlefields of Spain to the marble halls of Rome, Marcus watches the man he loves become something monstrous. Divine honours accumulate but mercy becomes cruelty and the Senate transforms into a theatre of sycophants whilst Rome holds its breath.Marcus remains at Caesar's side not because he believes anymore, but because walking away would be the final betrayal of everything they built together.But loyalty has its limits and in the shadows of the Forum, men are asking dangerous questions about what Rome has become, and what price must be paid to save it.Some friendships survive anything. Others break under the weight of what we become and Marcus must decide where loyalty ends and complicity begins, before the choice is taken from him forever.The civil war is over but the dying has just begun. Read more