#39;Ancient Rome provides rich plunder for fantasy writers...Godstorm is a grand addition to the genre#39; Daily Mail
#39;This startling alternative history takes us to a newly-imagined world... The result is a vivid, ferocious adventure#39; Kim Stanley-Robinson
#39;A highly original, vividly-imagined fantasy Roman Empire where oil is power#39; Ruth Downie
LOVE READING SCIFI/FANTASY BOOK OF THE MONTH
A Female Gladiator#39;s Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to End Empires
In an oil-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, Arrow – a gladiatrix turned governess – must rescue Livy, the child she never meant to love, a girl who could tear down the world.
When Livy is abducted during a devastating Godstorm, Arrow must unleash years of the gladiator training she#39;d sworn to forget in order to save her. Defying her owner, a heartless Consul, Arrow turns to her ex-lover and the illegal druid underworld in a desperate attempt to rescue the girl she has tried not to think of as her own.
Her search will take her across Londinium, a city of petrol-powered chariots, to the pagan Old Town, and eventually the edge of the known world: the Amazon, where destiny and destruction intertwine.
Facing battle and betrayal Arrow must choose: reclaim her past as a killer—or risk everything for the child who might call her #39;mother.#39;
She is the Sword.
