The Secundus Papyrus
- 337 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
Getorius y el Misterio de Arcadia Serie
Esta serie transporta a los lectores al tumultuoso panorama de la Italia del siglo V, centrándose en una pareja de casados que navega por circunstancias extraordinarias. Sigue sus vidas entrelazadas mientras se enfrentan a las maquinaciones políticas y los dramas personales de la época. Es una convincente mezcla de ficción histórica y narrativa centrada en los personajes, que ofrece una ventana a un momento crucial de la historia.
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The Cybelene Conspiracy
- 316 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
Surgeon Getorius Asterius, his wife Arcadia, the eunuch archpriest of a pagan fertility cult, the female head of a heretical Arian church, and an ambitious senator in league with a Chinese merchant: these are the prime movers in this mystery set in Ravenna, Italy, in A.D. 440. When Getorius is summoned to examine the castrated body of a youth found by Thecla in her Arian church, who is the sobbing “Vestal Virgin” nearby? Is there any connection between this crime and the fact that a senator is smuggling counterfeit Western coins to the Eastern Empire, and contraband Chinese products back to Ravenna? A coded message leads to a secret tunnel and the sinister temple of Cybele, whose devotees are self-mutilated eunuchs. In a stunning climax, the conspirators try to escape Ravenna, planning to sell their products in Egypt, but failing to recognize the deadly nature of what they are carrying…