Historias de Gladiatrix

|Beware to all those who enter here| • • • |They were angels. Perfect. Disgusting. I had heard of such wicked creatures; the Church taught about their lustful and gluttonous nature. They who were not of God. The abominations. The sinful.| Copyright 2016

Valeria was a slave, but she wasn't passive enough. She was dispatched to a gladiator school where she was trained to fight, trained to kill, but most importantly trained to survive. Sent to fight in the Romans Colosseum Valeria must fight to survive and gain her freedom.

The last eastern city, Coda, is decimated from famine and disease. The only chance of survival for Lucy and her family is to migrate to Grandeur – ‘City of Prosperity’. However, unknown to them, they find themselves at the mercy of the Cleanse Act, a violent gladiator tournament that removes citizens at random, pitting them against each other in a fight to the death. When the Act calls upon Lucy to shed blood inside the dome, she struggles with hiding a rare genetic gift and capturing the hearts of a broken nation – which may be her only hope at salvation.

Bellatrix is well-known, rich, and the most dangerous woman around. She's forced to fight to the death, for the brutal entertainment of bloodthirsty crowds... Cato is the Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He's trapped in his gilded cage, forced to be the face for his father's rule. He's rebellious, angry, and dangerous ... And he should have let her gladiator opponent kill her. But for some reason, he saved her. The Roman Empire is on the verge of collapse, treachery is rampant, and no one can be trusted. Love is on no one's mind... well, until it is. Rome will fall, and she will rise. *Based on the actual fall of the Western Roman Empire and Emperor Romulus Augustus in 476 AD. Some changes have been made for the purposes of the story*

* A published short story! * The Gladiatrix is set in Ancient Rome, where fighting to the bloody death in an Ampethetere was cool. Zenobia is the deadliest Gladiatrix in all of the arenas; that meant the more famous she got, the more money she and the editor of the games would get. Zenobia loved all the fame and fortune that came with the job, but all of that would soon change. As Zenobia finds out the truth of who she really fights in the amphitheater; she seeks out redemption the only way a gladiatrix, like herself, knows best. A fight to the death.

In a time when women were little more then objects for breeding, and tools for a mans advancement to higher office, comes the story of two woman, one born a noble women, the granddaughter of Emperors and the sister of one, and a girl born to an enslaved people, forced to fight both for her family and her life in the Arena... The difference in the world between life and death, freedom and eternal slaverey. Then there are those for whom their success in the areana will be more then a bet, and for whom their wager will mean, like the emporer's thumb up or down, more then money could.

Annekya is the last of the tribute her tribe sent to Rome. As a slave, this is her story through the Colosseum, and into a new household she could grow to actually cherish. Her only problem with this new household? She's a servant, and suspects she might have a crush on her young Roman master. Not Good.

In a world where duty binds and power corrupts, Laureen-the daughter of a powerful Roman senator-is born into gold, expectation, and silence. Sarah is forged in the arena, a gladiatrix with nothing to lose and no one to fight for... until now. When their paths cross in a moment of rebellion, it sparks a love that threatens to shake an empire. Together, they flee into the wild-only to discover they are not alone. Among fugitives, warriors, and whispered dreams of freedom, Laureen and Sarah become something Rome has never seen before: a force. But the empire never forgets. And love, in the shadow of power, can be both a weapon-and a war. A slow-burn sapphic historical romance full of fire, political drama, and rebellion. For fans of forbidden love, fierce women, and changing the world one battle at a time.

She defied an empire. * * * * Five months after Krista and her band of gladiators delivered a swift and humiliating defeat to the Roman army, Krista has become the leader of a slave rebellion that travels across Rome, freeing slaves from their chains and killing their masters. Their numbers are growing vast as people flock to their cause. But in order to destroy her enemy Krista must become like them, placing a strain on her relationship with those she loves the most. Meanwhile, back in Rome, the Empress is devising her own plans for a swift victory as she conscripts vast legions from across the empire and calls on 'The Destroyer'. With a terrifying record of more than fifty bouts; no losses or draws, he is arguably the greatest Gladiator ever to have lived. But as war starts to loom a new enemy shall present itself to Krista. One that is more deadly than Rome itself and threatens to take the very thing that matters most to the Gladiatrix. **** Treachery, murder and lies are only a few of the things Krista will have to navigate as she searches for who she is, and all she can become if she is to succeed. . . . . as all roads lead to Rome, and a war that will shape the world. ________________________________________________________ Deos Fortioribus adese - The gods are on the side of the stronger ________________________________________________________ Book 2 of the Gladiator series and sequel to 'Gladiator of Rome'. All Rights Reserved.

Alexandria Silvestre was born in the small city of Polis raised by her parents Maximus and Becca Silvestre. Maximus was the owner of one of the most renowned Gladiatorial academies in all of Rome where novice warriors and slaves would come to train as Gladiators. In some instances even decorated warriors would come to learn the trick of the trade to become Gladiators fit to fight in the fierce Colosseum. Alexandria had taken an extensive interest in her father's profession at a young age and started training with the fierce warriors. Female Gladiators were people that were of an extreme rarity but still, they fought in the Colosseum with men as their equals. When a civil war struck, Alexandria was prepared to fight alongside her brothers and sisters but what she was not prepared for was to lose her family and lover Costia. After the war, she decided that Polis had nothing more to offer her now that she had lost everything she had ever loved. In her grief, Lexa and her best friend Octavia set out to Rome to fight in the Colosseum and Lexa feels if death befalls her, it would not matter. After her first fight and many kills, the new Emperor Jake Gryphem [Latin for Griffin] was quite satisfied with her performances and show of skill being able to cut down men three times her size. Upon personally meeting Alexandria by his request after a match in the arena, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to set Alexandria in his daughter, Clarke Gryphem's personal guard which Alexandria honorably accepts as it is a request from her Emperor. However, upon meeting Clarke Gryphem, Alexandria is absolutely blown away by her Empress's beauty. Although Alexandria continues to fight in the Colosseum to free her mind of her demons, her Empress clouds her mind and she now fights to live. And so her Rise to Empress begins in 140AD. - Scenes of gore and occasional strong language is used. -