The Wolf and the Silk
A Roman Epic of War, Honor, and Forbidden Love
When the pagan banners of Rome cast their shadow across the known world, the Empire stands divided into five mighty Houses-each a pillar of its strength, each sworn to the Senate's will.
From the northern frontier comes (Y/N), heir of House Lupenor, the black-wolf legion famed for endurance and discipline. Trained in the brutal Academia Censorialis, he is forged into a Centurion-one of Rome's chosen few. His victories in the frozen Germanic rebellion earn him a name whispered through the legions: The Wolf of Lupenor.
But glory in Rome is never enough. When the Senate declares Bellum Orientalis, the Eastern War, (Y/N) is chosen as second-in-command of the invasion that will carry the legions beyond the edge of any Roman map-to the distant kingdoms of Joseon, China, Japan, and Formosa. There, among palaces of jade and silk, he meets Lady Chou Tzuyu, daughter of the Admiral of the Formosan fleet-graceful, intelligent, and condemned to become his wife when war and politics demand peace through marriage.
Bound by duty yet haunted by conscience, the Wolf who conquered nations must now face a gentler battlefield: the heart of the woman who fears him. As rebellion brews, empires clash, and gods look on in silence, their union becomes both the Empire's hope and its heresy.
Set in an alternate Rome at the height of its pagan glory, The Wolf and the Silk weaves a tale of conquest and compassion, of an iron soldier and a silken soul, and of how even the greatest empire can be undone by love.