'Ancient Rome provides rich plunder for fantasy writers...Godstorm is a grand addition to the genre' Daily Mail'This startling alternative history takes us to a newly-imagined world... The result is a vivid, ferocious adventure' Kim Stanley-Robinson'A highly original, vividly-imagined fantasy Roman Empire where oil is power' Ruth DownieLOVE READING SCIFI/FANTASY BOOK OF THE MONTHA Female Gladiator?s Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to End EmpiresIn an oil-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, Arrow ? a gladiatrix turned governess ? must rescue Livy, the child she never meant to love, a girl who could tear down the world.When Livy is abducted during a devastating Godstorm, Arrow must unleash years of the gladiator training she'd sworn to forget in order to save her. Defying her owner, a heartless Consul, Arrow turns to her ex-lover...
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'Ancient Rome provides rich plunder for fantasy writers...Godstorm is a grand addition to the genre' Daily Mail'This startling alternative history takes us to a newly-imagined world... The result is a vivid, ferocious adventure' Kim Stanley-Robinson'A highly original, vividly-imagined fantasy Roman Empire where oil is power' Ruth DownieLOVE READING SCIFI/FANTASY BOOK OF THE MONTHA Female Gladiator?s Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to End EmpiresIn an oil-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, Arrow ? a gladiatrix turned governess ? must rescue Livy, the child she never meant to love, a girl who could tear down the world.When Livy is abducted during a devastating Godstorm, Arrow must unleash years of the gladiator training she'd sworn to forget in order to save her. Defying her owner, a heartless Consul, Arrow turns to her ex-lover and the illegal druid underworld in a desperate attempt to rescue the girl she has tried not to think of as her own.Her search will take her across Londinium, a city of petrol-powered chariots, to the pagan Old Town, and eventually the edge of the known world: the Amazon, where destiny and destruction intertwine.Facing battle and betrayal Arrow must choose: reclaim her past as a killer?or risk everything for the child who might call her 'mother.'She is the Sword.
