Rome and the Sasanians

Romantic High Fantasy and Alternative History novel set in an alternative 4th century Roman Empire. The Sasanians are renewing their attack against the Roman empire. This forces the emperor's estrange consort and daughter to come back to Rome. There, Lucia, the daughter in question, is thrust at the centre of her parent's quarrels, the deadly politics of the imperial court, and the attention of the Sasanian king.

Romantic High Fantasy and Alternative History novel set in an alternative 4th century Roman Empire   Rome is powerful and prosperous. After a short succession crisis in the middle of the 3rd century, the arrival on the throne of a new powerful dynasty has restore the pax romana. The invention of a new type of forest-based magic has even allowed its latest emperor to manage a conquest that had long eluded Rome: that of Magna Germania.   However, Rome is not the only one to have thrived. The Persians are back, and with a new kind of terrifying magic manipulating fire itself! The Persian Sasanian dynasty has annihilated the old enemies of Rome, the Parthians. The latest Sasanian king has brought his conquest into the Roman Empire itself, first by taking Anatolia, then Achaea. And it seems that his eyes are now set on Dalmatia...   It is such a Sasanian incursion into that region that forces the Roman emperor's estranged wife and daughter to come back to Rome. There, Livia, the daughter in question, is thrust at the centre of her parent's quarrels, the deadly politics of the imperial court, and the attention of the Sasanian king...


State: Book plotted. I will start working on the worldbuilding in July 2022.