East Wind, Dark Wind

This sequel to "The One Honorable Man" finds Roman Senator and voluntary exile Marcus Junius Stator in a desperate search to find his love, the slave Livila, spirited away from the Eternal City in the wake of the murder of the mad emperor Caligula.Set in the eastern Roman Empire in the early days of the reign of the Emperor Claudius, Marcus finds himself drawn unknowingly into a horrific plot to seize control of the known world away from Rome and destroy the capital of the empire.Racing against time Marcus must face a wide spread conspiracy, the betrayal of friends, and the terror of a world on the brink of conquest from within.To rescue the love of his life he must unleash his knowledge of the arts of death, learned from half a lifetime in the mysterious lands beyond the Empire, and stand against enemies he does not even know as time runs quickly toward a terrible future.