Wolf & Eagle: A Historical Novel About Ancient Rome & Germania

By Sean Krug

The story begins in 149 BC in ancient Germania, young Pris, a 12-year-old Cimbrian (Germanic) girl. is very independent, . Pris has a passion to explore the world and be seen as an equal among her male peers. Her father Krull is her village's chieftain who teaches Pris to hunt and survive. Krull and his wife are sent on a trade mission to a neighboring tribe and during their return, their caravan is attacked, Pris is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Pris is traded and eventually sold to a Roman buyer. Ancient Rome at this point was set in the mid-period of the Roman Republic. It was during a time of endless war, the Republic's victories led to territorial and Economic expansion for the elite, but created internal societal challenges and strife. It is during this eventful period that Pris grows up a slave to a dysfunctional family in Rome. Her master is an abusive father, who blames his youngest son, a gay man, for the death of his wife from childbirth. His older son is his dad's beloved, an alpha male. They are soon sent off to fight in Greece, in the years to come they meet an African merchant pirate, an escaped Carthaginian gladiator slave, a Spartan glory seeker and others. The father and son both impact Pris as she grows up surviving through slavery, her fears, desires and misbeliefs in challenging times and shifting life options. Things come to a head that force Pris to reclaim her freedom and embark on a heroine's journey to return to her homeland, but at great personal and emotional cost. A theme of the novel is the importance of family, the value of believing in oneself, to never give up and of how precious freedom and civic duty are. The events of this novel will lead into the sequel book "Love & War".

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B6XS85J5
• ISBN13: 9798838096838
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"