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The Carnelian Phoenix
Book 2 in the Quintus Valerius Mysteries series.
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In AD 224, Quintus Valerius leaves Britannia for Rome with Tiro and Julia Aureliana. During the journey through Gaul, he receives a carnelian intaglio ring left by his long-dead father and encounters a slaughtered military escort. One political prisoner is dead, another has escaped, and the unexplained attack draws Quintus into a case that is entangled with his own family history.
When Julia disappears, the investigation becomes both personal and political. In Rome, Quintus finds that old loyalties have shifted around the young emperor Severus Alexander, his mother Julia Mamaea and the jurist Ulpian. A conspiracy to remove the emperor forces him to navigate senatorial ambition, military resentment and secrets inherited from the previous generation, turning the mystery of the ring into a struggle over succession and the stability of the Severan regime.
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