An excerpt from HEROICA

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Here’s a taster from Revolution?, the first story in HEROICA

Roma Nova, 2020

‘You are joking!’

‘You think subversive activity threatening Roma Nova is a joke?’ Legate Conradus Mitelus, head of the Praetorian Guard Special Forces, and for good or bad, also my husband, frowned at me. […]

HEROICA - Why three stories?

HEROICA has a strange origin. Revolution?, the first part, started as a little story I wanted to write for myself – an indulgence. Then it grew and grew. The heroine, Carina, goes off piste as usual (see the first four Roma Nova thrillers!) and her investigation became ever more complicated and the ‘short story’ became […]

What if Caesar wasn't assassinated?

In my new story in Fate: Tales of History, Mystery and Magic, Stannia and Federicus are ‘time-stitchers’ in a future timeline where the Roman Empire is still going strong. No, it’s not Roma Nova, but a completely made-up world.

The instigator of this short story collection, Helen Hollick, told the ten authors to let […]