Is learning a lesson worth losing your life?

Bringing back a traitor to face trial seems an easy job for young Roma Novan officer Carina Mitela – until she is catapulted into confrontation with the powerful head of the Praetorian Guard. Will she collapse in face of corruption at high level or risk disgrace and destruction in standing up for her principles?

On her first overseas mission, Carina and her comrade-in-arms Flavius's sole task is to recover a traitor hiding in the Republic of Quebec. Under no circumstances must she enter the Eastern United States where she is still wanted under her old name Karen Brown.

But when she investigates further, she uncovers a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of Roma Nova. What price is personal danger against fulfilling the mission?

Set between INCEPTIO and PERFIDITAS, this fast-paced novella reveals hidden parts of Carina's early life and offers a thrilling mix of mystery and military adventure in an alternate history where the Roman Empire never fell.

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