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When I wrote Perilous Privilege and Solitary Journey, set in the turbulent years of 3rd-century Rome, I was struck by how familiar that world sometimes feels. Rome’s so-called “Crisis of the [...]

When I tell people I write novels set in the 3rd century AD, I often get puzzled looks. Why not Julius Caesar? Why not Augustus, or Constantine, or the fall of Rome in the 5th century? Those [...]

When Emperor Valerian was captured by the Persians in AD 260, Rome was left stunned. Never before had a reigning emperor been taken alive by a foreign enemy. In that moment of crisis, his son [...]