The Severan Prophecies    by David Chacko
Price: $7.99 USD. 141740 words. Published by Foremost Press  on October 29, 2009. .
When the Roman emperor Caracalla was assassinated, his family gave the task of safeguarding their dynasty to the questor Marcellus Decimus, the narrator of this story. How he led a young boy named Varius in a race against death that culminated in the restoration of the dynasty is one of the more remarkable episodes in the chaotic and violent history of Rome.