Enemies of the Empire Susan Fletcher Maurice’s wife Ida yearns for

Maurice’s wife Ida yearns for the lost days of privilege and pleasure and family friend Victor seems unwilling to move on

Some unsavoury characters are encountered on the way

but it's original and

His work only interrupted when he becomes father to the son he has longed for for twenty years

Enemies of the Empire Susan Fletcher Maurice’s wife Ida yearns forIt's AD 188, and a tiresome three day journey to the forested outskirts of the Empire is the last thing Libertus, freedman and pavement maker, wants to make. Not only are there wolves and bears, but Celtic rebels may well regard the lone coach as fair game. But when Marcus Septimus asks Libertus to join him on official business, he knows he can't refuse his benevolent patron. En route to the garrison town of Isca, they stop at Venta: a simmering