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Overview: D. N. Baltas was born in Melbourne, Australia. Raised in the fusion of Greek and Aussie, he was fortunate enough to enjoy the benefits and perspectives of both worlds – especially when it came to their stories. From a young age he was surrounded by them, from old mythology to the contemporary greats, and all of them lit in him the desire to tell his own tales one day.
As with all great (ahem) origin stories, he remembers his own that set him on the path to an adulthood of hair-pulling re-writes and a home office with a poster saying ‘hit head here’ (any writer would understand) – his eighth birthday party when his Aunt and Uncle gifted him the incomparable Mossflower, by Brian Jacques.
Since then, he’s had his own crack, with his writing inspired by his deep passion for Roman History, in particular its lesser known aspect, Byzantium. Caesar, Augustus, and Constantine are all well and good, but he sees the value in the Justinians, Belisariuses, and Procopiuses of the past, and he knows that you will to.
Genre: Historical Fiction
01 The Last Son of Rome
AD 530
IT IS A TIME OF CONFLICT AND FALSE DAWN
The Roman Empire is a shadow of what it once was.
With the western provinces lost to barbarism, the Imperium clings to a reduced remnant ruled from Nova Roma, the Eternal City of Constantinople. As a new Emperor accedes to the throne determined to arrest decades of decay, the fires of war are stoked in the east by an ancient enemy bent on its final destruction.
THE SON OF A DISGRACED SENATOR
Lucian Hypatius is the inheritor of a name shunned by the very empire his family has served faithfully for generations. Fuelled by a desire to right the injustice of his father’s past failures, he seeks to forge his own path in service to the empire’s last great hope against the growing threat – General Flavius Belisarius.
A YOUNG WOMAN BORN OF THE STREETS
Cast out from a home she has no memory of and discarded by a city that has no use for her, Ariadne leads a shadow life of theft and deception on the perilous streets of Constantinople. A fateful encounter with the famed scholar Procopius of Caesarea will set her upon the path of history.
TO FORGE A NEW LEGACY
Their destinies will come together on an odyssey that will carry them across an ailing world.
On the path to war, they will discover if a new future can be forged, or if the tides of history and the shadows of legacy are too far reaching to escape.
02 Vengeance-Price
MESOPOTAMIA, GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES
Striking from the desert, the forces of the King of Kings have slaughtered the Imperial garrison of Bibractium. Hungry for Roman blood and the glory of their Fire-God Ahura Mazda, the hordes of the East will not stop until the ancestral lands of Persia are restored. Severely weakened and on the back foot, Rome is battered, but the battle standards of her legions still stand, and the martial flame burns strong in its finest general in generations: Flavius Belisarius.
A FATHER’S SINS
As the Imperium mobilises, the city of Dara is destined to be the centrepiece. But all is not well – discord threatens the legions in the face of invasion. After journeying from Constantinople, the young and inexperienced Lucian Hypatius is tasked with a perilous mission to determine the loyalty of a wavering commander, a man feared by ally and enemy alike, and considered the only equal in ability to Belisarius: Tribune Bouzes, the Scourge of the East. The stage is set, and upon it, Lucian will find his quality – or fall.
A YEARNING FOR RETRIBUTION
On the trail of the Persian commander responsible for the slaughter at Bibractium, Ariadne and the former agente Bull pursue their foe across the desert. The demands of justice are countered by the trials of heat and despair that rule in the arid wastes. For Ariadne, the whispers of the past are ever-present, and the soul-destroying need for revenge could come to cost her everything she has come to love.
DESTINY ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF DARA
Stand or fall, the Empire is destined to forever change, for on the battlefield of Dara, history will be written with the blood of the fallen.
And in the aftermath, nothing will be the same.
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