Hi all — offering ARCs for my debut historical fiction novel, Lupus et Aquila (The Wolf and the Eagle), Book One of The Aquila Chronicles, releasing October 13, 2026.
Genre: Historical Fiction / Ancient Rome / Trajan's Dacian Wars Comp titles: fans of Simon Scarrow, Ben Kane, or Conn Iggulden's Roman-era work — though this one is less concerned with the glory of the legions than with what they leave behind them
Synopsis: 101 AD. As Trajan's legions cross into Dacia, two young men stand on opposite sides of a war neither chose. Aquila is a Roman legionary, eleven years a soldier, his body trained to do the work before his mind can object to it — and object it does, in small, unwelcome moments discipline can silence but never quite erase. Sinna is a Dacian shepherd's son who loses everything the morning Rome's army reaches his village, and finds, in the wreckage, that the one thing still willing to fight for him is Ursu, his family's massive, fiercely loyal guardian dog. This isn't a story about the glory of conquest. It's about what a war machine leaves in the ground behind it, and what it costs the men trained to be its hands — even, and especially, the ones who tell themselves they're only following orders correctly.
Format available: EPUB / MOBI / PDF, delivered via BookFunnel Review platforms: Amazon and Goodreads preferred; open to any honest platform you use Timeline: Happy to work with your schedule — ideally reviews live at or shortly after October 13
Genre: Historical Fiction / Ancient Rome / Trajan's Dacian Wars
Comp titles: fans of Simon Scarrow, Ben Kane, or Conn Iggulden's Roman-era work — though this one is less concerned with the glory of the legions than with what they leave behind them
Synopsis: 101 AD. As Trajan's legions cross into Dacia, two young men stand on opposite sides of a war neither chose. Aquila is a Roman legionary, eleven years a soldier, his body trained to do the work before his mind can object to it — and object it does, in small, unwelcome moments discipline can silence but never quite erase. Sinna is a Dacian shepherd's son who loses everything the morning Rome's army reaches his village, and finds, in the wreckage, that the one thing still willing to fight for him is Ursu, his family's massive, fiercely loyal guardian dog. This isn't a story about the glory of conquest. It's about what a war machine leaves in the ground behind it, and what it costs the men trained to be its hands — even, and especially, the ones who tell themselves they're only following orders correctly.
Format available: EPUB / MOBI / PDF, delivered via BookFunnel
Review platforms: Amazon and Goodreads preferred; open to any honest platform you use
Timeline: Happy to work with your schedule — ideally reviews live at or shortly after October 13
Comment below or DM if you'd like a copy — thank you for considering it!Lupus et Aquila: The Wolf & The Eagle