Lucilla Minor has never wanted power. She prefers laws to speeches, ledgers to glory, and believes Rome's problems can usually be solved by competent administration.
Then someone offers her the chance to prove it.
Suddenly, every impossible decision becomes hers to make. Every crisis has a solution. Every compromise can simply… disappear.
The Republic has never worked so well.
The question is how much of it will be left when she's finished saving it.
Political intrigue. Bureaucratic absurdity. And a temptation that has brought down greater Romans than her.