New York Times bestselling writer Margaret George has introduced heritage to bright existence along with her chronicles of queens and kings. Now, she turns her gaze to an Emperor...
equipped at the backs of these who fell ahead of it, Julius Caesar’s imperial dynasty is simply as powerful because the subsequent one who seeks to regulate it. within the Roman Empire not anyone is secure from the edge of betrayal: guy, woman—or child.
As a boy, Nero’s royal historical past turns into a risk to his very lifestyles, first while the mad emperor Caligula attempts to drown him, then while his nice aunt makes an attempt to safe her personal son’s inheritance. confronted with surprising acts of treachery, younger Nero is dealt a harsh lesson: it really is higher to be merciless than dead.
whereas Nero idealizes the creative and athletic ideas of Greece, his very survival rests on his skill to navigate the ocean of vipers that's Rome. the main deadly of all is his personal mom, a cold-blooded lady whose singular objective is to manage the empire. With crafty and poison, the stumbling blocks fall one after the other. yet as Agrippina’s machinations earn her son a name he's either tempted and terrified to imagine, Nero’s choice to flee her thrall will form him into the fellow he was once fated to become—an Emperor who turned legendary.
With impeccable study and appealing prose, The Confessions of younger Nero is the tale of a boy’s ruthless ascension to the throne. Detailing his trip from blameless adolescence to notorious ruler, it's an epic story of the lengths to which guy will cross within the final quest for strength and survival.
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