Synopsis
'One shall tame a mighty foe, the other strike to save Rome's fame, neither will achieve their aim. Look aloft if you dare, though what you fear cannot fly, both will face it before you die.' Two patrician youths, Aulus Cornelius and Lucius Falerius, appeal to the Alban Sybil, a Roman oracle, for a glimpse of the future, but all she offers are ominous words and the drawn outline of an eagle, which portends death. That night, to ward off evil, they make a blood oath to remain true to each other throughout life...Twenty years later Aulus, now a successful general, must face his toughest battle yet when his young wife Claudia is captured by Celtic-Iberian rebels. Although reunited, ignoble shame threatens to fall upon the Cornelius family...unless the clandestine birth of a child can be concealed.Lucius has chosen a career in politics; he is the leading Patrician in the Senate, wielding power and willingly abusing it to maintain his aristocratic supremacy. All Lucius lacks is an heir, a problem to which he is determined to find a solution, whatever the cost. Both men's destinies are intertwined with an abandoned baby found with a gold eagle charm wound around his foot. Could the old Sybil's prophesy prove to be more powerful than Aulus and Lucius ever imagined? Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, "The Pillars of Rome" - the first in the "Republic" series - is an epic tale of breathtaking brutality, ambition and friendship, love and betrayal, and the ancient land of its setting is brought lavishly to life.
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