The Oath of Florian

This is my fully published work that I want to share here . This is written as (F. Bennett Cole)

Nineteen years old and already hardened by blood, sand, and spectacle, Cassius is Rome's prized brutality-kept alive by victory and owned by a system that calls it honor. Behind the cheers and golden laurels, he is still a boy with bruised knuckles and a borrowed future, carrying the weight of his family name: the son of a Roman senator whose legacy was forged not in applause, but in war.

When a political bargain demands an impossible union, Cassius is handed a fate more dangerous than any blade. To settle debts, secure alliances, and quiet simmering rivalries within the city's ruling class, he is forced into an arranged marriage with Marcus Florian, a seventeen-year-old Roman nobleman raised in silk and surveillance-his every breath measured, his choices edited before he can even speak them aloud.