[The Empress of Rome 3.50] • The Three Fates

The Three Fates

Beloved Emperor Trajan is dead. His brutal successor Hadrian draws ever nearer

to Rome. And three desperate souls try to forge new paths in a world turned

upside down . . .

THE EMPEROR’S NEMESIS. Battered warrior Vix has always been Hadrian’s bitter

enemy, and he vows that will never change, even when he is made Praetorian

Guard and Imperial watchdog. But with his family’s lives on the line, Vix

faces a bitter choice: kill a friend, or serve a foe?

THE EMPEROR’S RIVAL. Mild, scholarly Titus might once have been favored as

Imperial heir, but he never wanted the throne. All he desires is peace in the

arms of his new bride—but the jealous Hadrian has other ideas. A horror of

bloodshed and violence interrupts Titus’s wedding night, and the man of peace

finds a choice at sword-point: honor and death, or betrayal and a cell?

THE EMPEROR’S WIFE. Elegant, elusive Sabina is desperate to escape the bleak

future that awaits her as Hadrian’s Empress, and even more desperate to

conceal the secret growing in her own body. But when she begs a famous seer

for a glimpse into her future, she receives an astonishing vision of the

Eternal City under Hadrian’s rule, and the new Empress must choose: her own

freedom, or the glory of Rome?

Three former friends find new futures in blood, omen, and prophecy. Three

prequel vignettes to Kate Quinn’s long-awaited "Lady of the Eternal City."