Rome - VOLUME I: The Ford and the Fire

By Roberto Scaramuzzino

Before Rome, there was a ford.

Aulo Vareno is not a king, not a soldier, not a founder of cities. He is the leader of a small herding clan who controls a crossing on the Tiber and tries to hold his people together while the territory around them closes in.

It is around 900 BCE. The villages on the hills of Latium exist, but Rome does not - not yet. What exists is the river, the land, the livestock, the hunger, and the question no one says aloud: how long can a man last who refuses to ask for help?

The Ford and the Fire is the first volume of the ROME saga - the story of a family that is born before the city, grows with it, is torn apart by it, and survives the fall of its empire. A story of fourteen centuries told across twenty novels, beginning here, in the mud of a river crossing on an autumn morning, with a man reading the tracks left by someone else in the night.

ROME - Volume I

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GS5CVJVX
• ISBN13: 9798251571585
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"