TRUE FREEDOM

ISBN: 9781946139177 Géneros: Sinópsis: The chains we cannot see can be the hardest ones to breakWhen Aulus runs up a gambling debt to his father’s political enemy he’s desperate to pay it off before his father returns to Rome His best friend Marcus suggests they fake the kidnapping of Aulus’s sister Julia and use the ransom money But when the man they hired kidnaps her for real Aulus is catapulted into a desperate search to find herTorn from his childhood home by Rome’s conquering armies and sold as a farm slave to labor until he dies Dacius’s faith gives him strength to bear what he must and serve without complaining After a deadly accident makes him one of Julia’s litter bearers he overhears Marcus advising her brother to kidnap her When Dacius almost dies thwarting the kidnapping a Christian couple take them in to keep her brother from finding them before her father returnsBut pretending to be free again makes returning to slavery more than Dacius can bear while acting like a common woman opens Julia’s eyes to dreams and destinies she never knew existed With her brother closing in and her father almost home can she find a way around Roman law and custom to free them both for the future they long forDangerous times difficult friendships lives transformed by forgiveness and loveThe Light in the Empire series follows the interconnected lives of four Roman families during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian Each can be read standalone The eight novels of the series will take you around the Empire from Germania and Britannia to Thracia Dacia and Judaea and of course to Rome itself