Sauromachy: An Epic of the Fall of Empires

"Let me recall now the destinies of she who caused the world to burn..." The year is 450, and the ancient world teeters on the verge of collapse. Dragons stir, nations gather, and Attila the Hun prepares for his greatest campaign, goaded by a cruel battle-god, but it is Honoria, sister to the Western Roman emperor, who is blamed for Antiquity's last great war. Exiled from the opulence of her youth, she is thrust into a world that is just as weird and wonderful as it is violent, and it is among this violence that she finds her purpose. To redeem her honor and set right the turmoil of her age, Honoria resolves to campaign far and wide across the earth with a army of beasts older even than the Olympian gods her Roman predecessors worshiped: a host of dinosaurs. And yet, regardless of Attila's fate, Rome is doomed to fall. Like all empires, she must perish, and Rome's destiny will echo that of the great beasts Honoria hopes might save her people. Can her heroism mend the world's hurts, or will her wars only beget further wars? Are we doomed to repeat without end the sins of our ancestors? **This book contains segments with extended epic fantasy violence, comparable in tone and intensity to the epics of Homer or Virgil. There are also sparse references to historic and mythological instances of sexual acts/violence, but no depictions thereof.**