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While Rome burns, an invisible empire rises from the ashes. Nero plays his lyre and the city smolders, but amidst the smoke and ruin of the Great Fire, Lucius Vallorius sees only opportunity. While patricians panic and plebeians starve, the Vallori family begins a silent conquest-not with swords, but with debt, mortar, and a benevolence so intoxicating it feels like salvation. In the shadows of the Forum, a new philosophy of power is born. It does not seek the Emperor's throne, but the unseen levers that move it. As Lucius weaves a web of dependency around the city's elite, his sister Valeria weaponizes compassion to bind the common people in a ""gilded cage"" of comfort and security. But in the dark alleyways of the Subura, a lone artisan named Fausta Rufina notices that the hand feeding Rome is also slowly wrapping a chain around its throat. Witness the birth of a conspiracy that will span millennia. In a city addicted to spectacle, the true game is played in the dark, where the currency is not gold, but the human soul. This is the explosive start of a 13-book saga. While it can be read as a standalone thriller, it sets the stage for a conspiracy that spans two thousand years. The saga continues in Volume 2/13, which dives into the financial collapse of the Empire and the rise of a drug-fueled economy.

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