Nero

From this New York Times bestselling author, the first novel in a new trilogy that finds Empress Agrippina and
her young son, Nero, fending off ambitious rivals while shaping their own destiny—if Nero is to become the
most feared and notorious emperor of them all.
The story begins with a hand curled around another man’s throat.
This is Roman justice: Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor—a friend he once trusted with the city—then
the man's whole family and all of his friends. It is as if he never existed.
Into this fevered forum, a child is born. His mother is Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. But their
imperial blood is neither balm nor protection. Rather, it is a liability. Blood is easily spilled or poisoned. So swiftly
corrupted.
As the aging, paranoid Tiberius becomes blind to the ignoble end awaiting him, Agrippina sees the future. Her
once-exiled brother Caligula is next in succession, which brings her another step closer to the heart of the
empire—to power, ambition, and danger.
Every day she will face soldiers, senators, rivals, silver-tongued pretenders, each vying for position. One mistake
risks exile, incarceration, execution. Or, worst of all, perhaps the loss of her infant son.
Because Agrippina knows that, even in your darkest moments, opportunity rises. Her son is everything. She
can make this boy, shape him into Rome itself—the man before whom all must kneel. But first, Agrippina and
Nero must survive . . .