Take a trip back into History and witness the final days of the Roman Empire as experienced by Rome's Empress and her daughter. Taken captive by the Vandals, they must carve a new life for themselves in this hostile and anarchic society. One chooses to remain Roman; the other chooses to become Vandal.

Take a trip back into History and witness the final days of the Roman Empire as experienced by Rome's Empress and her daughter. Taken captive by the Vandals, they must carve a new life for themselves in this hostile and anarchic society. One chooses to remain Roman; the other chooses to become Vandal.

This is a work of historical fiction. The story is based upon facts drawn from KING HARALD'S SAGA and from various chronicles of the age. Most of the historical data is sketchy and highly suspect, as only the educated elite of the Church could read and write, and so the documentary field belonged to them. Who can resist the lure of the enduring romance of the Viking Age in Europe? Who can resist digging among the fragments of truth and the inflated stereotypes to unearth the real human beings who created this dynamic era of human history? Who were they? What did they want? What did they hope...

The Year of the Four Emperors was preceded by one of the more dissolute and depraved emperors in Roman history. Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, known as Nero, governed the most powerful political power in the known world. He surrounded himself with panderers and pleasure-seekers of all sorts. His reign was marred by a variety of disasters, both natural and man-made. The Great Fire destroyed huge portions of the Eternal City. But another upheaval of epic proportions was already shifting the sands beneath his Throne. It was during Nero's reign that Peter and Paul sowed the seeds of a new religion....