Carina Omnibus

21st century Roma Nova – powered by the Roman mindset, ruled by women

Praetorian Carina Mitela is courageous, fallible and sassy. She hefts a gladius or assault rifle as required. But can she defeat treachery, conspiracy and a dark nemesis and keep an enduring love burning? My ancestors fought to hold this land sixteen hundred years ago. I'm not letting some throwback destroy it.”

INCEPTIO – Terrified after a kidnap attempt, New Yorker Karen Brown has a harsh choice – being eliminated by a government enforcer or fleeing to mysterious Roma Nova, her dead mother's homeland in Europe. In Roma Nova, Karen finds safety – at a price – but the enforcer pursues her and sets a trap knowing she has no choice but to spring it...

CARINA – A novella. Bringing back a traitor to face trial seems an easy job for young Roma Novan officer Carina Mitela, until she is catapulted into confrontation with the powerful head of the Praetorian Guard. Will she collapse in face of corruption at high level or risk disgrace and destruction in standing up for her principles?

PERFIDITAS – Captain Carina Mitela of the Praetorian Guard Special Forces is in trouble – one colleague attacks her with a knife and another sets a trap to incriminate her in a conspiracy to topple the government of Roma Nova. With no option but to flee and operate illegally, she risks termination by both security services and conspirators. Seeking help from a not quite legal old friend could wreck her marriage to the enigmatic Conrad. As she struggles to save her beloved Roma Nova and her own life, she faces the ultimate betrayal…

SUCCESSIO – Roma Nova seems at peace. But Praetorian Guard Special Forces officer Carina Mitela is soon plunged into a nightmare of drugs, blackmail and breakdown. Faced with a gifted and vicious enemy, Carina may have met an adversary she cannot overcome. In this part historical thriller, part alternate history, but always Roman thriller, Carina has seconds in which to make the hardest decision of her life…

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Roman fiction brought up to the 21st century,  these stories guarantee noble ideals, passionate love, desperate choices, sacrifice, constant twists and turns and snappy dialogue with a dash of romance and humour in a timeline not so different from our own...