the Eagle and Dragon: Book I Survivor: A historical novel about Rome that could have been.

Cilicia, 117 AD. History dictated the Emperor must die. Trajan refused.Emperor Trajan, Rome's greatest conqueror, suffers a massive stroke. His rivals, led by the calculating Hadrian, wait for his last breath to seize the throne and retreat from the frontiers. But the old soldier opens his eyes with one final, impossible dream: to bypass the Parthian Empire by sea.While Rome descends into a silent war of whispers and poison, Trajan appoints an unthinkable heir: Lusius Quietus, a Berber prince and cavalry commander feared by the Senate. His mission is suicidal: reopen the ancient Pharaohs' canal, cross the Red Sea, and sail the Roman Eagles to India and the gates of Han China.From the treacherous marble halls of the Senate to the deadly monsoons of the Indian Ocean, The Survivor chronicles the brutal clash between one man's will and the weight of history.In this game, marble isn't stained with blood-it's stained with rumors. And empires aren't won with swords, but with logistics.The first volume of "The Eagle and the Dragon" trilogy, an epic alternate history exploring the collision of the Ancient West and the East.