Carol Ashby

Light in the Empire

1 - Forgiven (Nov-2016)
2 - Blind Ambition (May-2017)
3 - The Legacy (Nov-2017)
4 - Faithful (May-2018)
5 - Second Chances (Nov-2018)
6 - True Freedom (May-2019)

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  Forgiven
  

  • Nov-2016
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  Light in the Empire - 1
  

  Are some wounds too deep to forgive?With a ruthless father who murdered for the family inheritance, Marcus Drusus plans to do the same. In AD 122, Marcus follows his brother Lucius to Judaea and plots to frame a zealot for his older brother's death. ...

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  Blind Ambition
  

  • May-2017
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  Light in the Empire - 2
  

  Sometimes you have to almost die to discover how you want to live.It’s AD 114 in the Roman province of Germania Superior, and being a Christian carries a death sentence. Tribune Decimus Lentulus is on the fast track for a stellar political career b...

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  The Legacy
  

  • Nov-2017
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  Light in the Empire - 3
  

  When Rome has taken everything, what’s left for a man to give?Betrayed by a ruthless son who’ll do anything for power and wealth, Publius Drusus faces death with an unanswered prayer―that his treasured daughter, Claudia, and honorable son, Tit...

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  Faithful
  

  • May-2018
  • / Christian
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  Light in the Empire - 4
  

  Is the price of true friendship ever too high?

  In AD 122, Adela, the fiery daughter of a Germanic chieftain, is kidnapped and taken across the Roman frontier to be sold as a slave. When horse-trader Otto wins her while gambling with her kid...

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  Second Chances
  

  • Nov-2018
  • / Christian
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  Light in the Empire - 5
  

  Must the shadows of the past destroy the hope of the future?

  In AD 122, Cornelia Scipia, proud daughter of one of Rome's noblest families, learns her adulterous husband plans to betroth their daughter to the vicious son of his best friend. O...

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  True Freedom
  

  • May-2019
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  Light in the Empire - 6
  

  The chains we cannot see can be the hardest ones to break.

  When 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 th...

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  Hope Unchained
  

  • Dec-2019
  • / Historical
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  Can the deepest loss bring the greatest gain?Rome’s conquering army took Ariana’s family and freedom, but nothing can take her faith in Jesus. When she rescues a tribune’s wife from certain death, her reward is freedom and a chance to free her...

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  Honor Bound
  

  • Jun-2020
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  Honor had forced him to act. Time would tell if he'd regret it.Marcus Brutus owns estates, ships, and gladiator schools that increase his fortune daily, but his greatest treasures are his honor and his wife. When she reveals her faith in Jesus before...

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  Hope's Reward
  

  • Dec-2020
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  Must the secrets we hide destroy our hope for a future? For a gladiator slave, each time you step on the sand, it's kill or die. When Ursus decides to follow Jesus, he must choose to die the next time he's ordered to fight...or run away. He runs, tak...

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  More Than Honor
  

  • Jun-2021
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  Duty and honor had anchored his life, but only truth could set him free. Devotion to duty and dogged determination make Tribune Titianus the most feared investigator of the Urban Cohort. Honor drives him to hunt down anyone who breaks Roman law, but ...

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  What Matters Most
  

  • Dec-2021
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  When faced with impossible choices, how do you decide what matters most? For ten years, the incorruptible Tribune Titianus enforced Rome's laws. He's four days from leaving the Urban Cohort to teach at his brother-in-law Kaeso's school when Emperor ...

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  Truth and Honor
  

  • Jan-2023
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  Is truth worth the price if it costs you everything?For Tribune Glabrio, descended from three consuls of Rome and determined to be the fourth, commanding the troops policing Carthago appears ideal for hastening his political rise. Arriving from Rome ...

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  Crushed Hopes and Hopeful Beginnings
  

  • Nov-2023
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  Crushed Hopes and Hopeful Beginnings: a Roman-era adventure with dangerous choices, unlikely friendships, and world views in conflict. Can God work all things for good if you don't even think he's real? Lusario was content in Cyrene as part of th...

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