When Florence's ledger is forged, the only man who can save the Republic is the scholar who taught a prince to be ruthless. Niccolò Machiavelli must choose between his family's safety and the truth that could topple a Borgia empire. Every footnote could be his death warrant. now also posting to Royal Road.

Aurelia, a Noble Roman woman, had heard of the savage British tribes, their mystic Celtic ways, and the battles the Roman army was fighting against them on their shores. The battles her soon-to-be Husband, Quintus Acquilla, was fighting in the name of the Eagle. But she could not have predicted that, when she crossed the ocean to be with him and fulfil the marriage contract between their families, she would be captured by a Barbarian War Lord and made to be his War Prize...