Treason

About the Book

"He is not mad... but he has power to drive others to it."

When Lucius Aurelius, commander of the Castasian mercenaries in service to the Torpani Empire is arrested for treason, he turns the world upside down. His mystified wife, faced with the Emperor's petulant proxy, must save herself and her children from their father's fate. His trusted aide finds himself motivated by more than sworn fealty when enlisted to help her. Emperor Maximian is forced to a judgment he would rather not make when Lucius, his best officer, twice refuses a direct order. The Emperor's Castasian courtesan is finally confronted by a truth she has denied for years - and an ancient power is roused in Lucius's eight-year-old daughter; a power that he alone must teach her to control before it destroys her.

Sentenced to public execution between chariot races at the Imperial Forum, he is driven to return to Nerona, where the world he has shaped is threatened by treachery closer to home, and where the past he abandoned has become his child's future...

About the Author

A writer from childhood, the earliest memory Ruth R. Greig has about public reaction to her work came at the age of 12. A creative writing assignment in Grade 7 had everyone in the class adapting a classic fairy tale to modern day. Each author read their story aloud before the class; when it came time for Ruth to read her version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," she was astonished to discover that her peers reacted with genuine enthusiasm and laughter in all the right places. "That was the moment when I thought there might be something to this writing thing," she says.

She's been writing for fun ever since, citing fantasy authors like George R. R. Martin, Anne Rice, and Katherine Kurtz as influences. "When I read something I wish I'd written , it motivates me to reach a new standard."

She also keeps herself open to new ideas. "I see stories in everything. I'm always on the prowl for new materials. Music and poetry inspire me. Film inspires me."

Treason is her first published novel, and the first volume in the Fixed Fire series.

Fixed Fire series

• Treason
• The Healing: Volume Two of Fixed Fire

For more information, please visit www.ruthrgreig.com