TyrantTravel to the heart of a Roman dynasty beset by power struggles and betrayal in this latest chapter of the tale of Nero ________ The boy Nero lives. His mother Agrippina has married her way to power, tangling the Emperor Claudius in her skirts. The emperor may have a son and heir of his own, but Agrippina sees no obstacles to her ambition. Rome is a path through a marsh, lit by torches. Those who walk it are always one step from disaster and the road

His passions

Crushed by failure and surrounded by disappointment

' ALEX MICHAELIDES

xenophobia

Charming her way into a job as a waitress in a local bistrot

What's myth

and spin light from darkness

But she has never forgotten the promise she made

one raised in poverty and in violence

including the politics of India and Pakistan

a story of divided loyalties and desperate heroism

especially when she meets the handsome