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It is 539 A.D.

The year is 548 and Empress Theodora is dead, the victim of cancer. Or so everyone in Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, believes.

Reed and Mayer combine the scholarship of Steven Saylor with the humor of Lindsey Davis.

Byzantium, capitol of the sixth century Roman Empire, simmers a rich stew of creeds, cultures, and citizens with a sprinkling of cutthroats and crimes.

In 525 Constantinople nothing is as it should be.

Who killed the mosaic girl?

In January 532, mobs ruled Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire.

Why are sheep in a remote Egyptian village cutting their own throats?

The year is 542. While plague stalks Constantinople, an angel sets John the Eunuch on the trail of a human killer.

This book will change the way you think about success.

Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island.

Mac’s school trip to Paris turns into an adventure she never imagined.

Dying is the best way to revive your musical career … even if you’re not really dead.

Fifteen-year-old Mackenzie returns to Paris to attend the Christmas Eve wedding of her Dad's old friend, Rudee Daroo, and the love of his life, dancer Sashay D'or.

Mackenzie — just “Mac,” thanks — is a regular fourteen-year-old girl, until a school trip to Paris leaves her tangled up with a cast of shadowy characters, crazy cabbies, and … are those real-life