She was Augusta-his father's wife.
In A.D. 326, both were sentenced to death.
History records the deaths of Crispus and Fausta. What happened before them remains one of the darkest mysteries of Constantine's imperial family.
Crispus had everything before him: victories on land and sea, the loyalty of his soldiers, a wife and children, and a future at the summit of the Roman Empire.
Fausta already stood beside the most powerful man in the Roman world.
Neither needed what the other could offer.
And yet they lived behind the same palace walls.
A look should have meant nothing. A touch should have ended there. But familiarity became attraction, attraction became desire, and desire became a secret neither could leave behind.
Around them, Constantine continued to build an empire. Armies marched. A new imperial capital rose in the East. Families gathered around ordinary tables. Husbands and wives lived beside one another, sometimes without seeing how far apart they had quietly grown.
Behind closed doors, Crispus and Fausta wanted only one thing:
Today.
They knew tomorrow would come.
They simply stopped wanting to think about it.
NO TOMORROW is a Roman historical novel of family, marriage, forbidden desire, power, and consequence-an imaginative reconstruction of the human story that might have existed inside one of the most haunting mysteries of Constantine's reign.
History tells us how it ended.
This novel asks why.中文他是凯撒--年轻的王,地位仅次于君士坦丁。
她是奥古斯塔--他父亲的妻子。
公元326年,两人先后被判处死刑。
历史记下了克里斯普斯与福斯塔的死亡,却没有告诉我们,在死亡之前究竟发生了什么。这至今仍是君士坦丁皇室最黑暗的谜团之一。
克里斯普斯原本拥有一切:陆海战场上的胜利、士兵的忠诚、妻子与孩子,以及通往罗马帝国权力顶峰的未来。
福斯塔已经站在罗马世界最有权势的男人身旁。
他们谁也不需要从对方那里得到什么。
然而,他们生活在同一座宫殿里。
一个眼神,本来不该意味着什么。一次触碰,本来应该到此为止。可是,熟悉变成吸引,吸引变成欲望,欲望最终变成一个两个人都无法放下的秘密。
在他们身边,君士坦丁仍在建立他的帝国。军队继续前进,东方一座新的帝国首都正在崛起。与此同时,一家人仍会围坐在普通的餐桌旁;丈夫与妻子仍睡在彼此身边,却可能没有发现,两颗心已经在不知不觉间越走越远。
紧闭的门后,克里斯普斯与福斯塔最后只想要一样东西:
今天。
他们知道明天一定会来。
他们只是不再愿意去想它。
《不要明天》是一部关于家庭、婚姻、禁忌欲望、权力与后果的罗马历史小说。它以君士坦丁统治时期最令人困惑的皇室悲剧之一为历史背景,试图以小说的方式重建那段史料没有留下的人性故事。
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