EXSILIUM — Alison Morton

Exile – Living death to a RomanAD 395. In a Christian Roman Empire, the penalty for holding true to the traditional gods is execution. Maelia Mitela, her dead husband condemned as a pagan traitor, leaving her on the brink of ruin, grieves for her son lost to the Christians and is fearful of committing to another man.Lucius Apulius, ex-tribune, faithful to the old gods and fixed on his memories of his wife Julia's homeland of Noricum, will risk everything to protect his children's future.Galla Apulia, loyal to her father and only too aware of not being the desired son, is desperate to escape Rome after the humiliation of betrayal by her feckless husband.For all of them, the only way to survive is exile.