A lyre that bends reality.
A boy who must learn its cost.
In the glittering, brutal heart of ancient Antioch, fifteen-year-old Anton is an apprentice sculptor trapped beneath the crushing weight of family debt and the dark, inescapable shadow of the arena.
While his uncle Titus, the legendary gladiator known as the Reaping Storm, fights to keep the family afloat, Anton seeks solace in carving stone and remembering the haunting melodies of his late mother.
While listening to a fiery open-air sermon preached by Paul on a stormy hillside, Anton’s life is violently upended by a blinding flash of lightning that leaves behind an impossible relic: a tortoiseshell lyre that had been consumed by his mother’s funeral pyre. Plucking its strings does not merely make music; it bends the fabric of reality itself.
The lyre becomes a bridge across time. Through its haunting notes, Anton discovers he can communicate across time with Tritonius, a hardened, legendary gladiator in Rome who is actually Anton’s own terrifying future self, as well as Patrick, a modern-day sports scientist who is grappling with the strange echoes of the past. Yet this divine gift carries a devastating toll.
As ruthless power-broker Decima hunts for the artifact and the fires of religious and political upheaval scorch the empire, Anton must learn that the music of fate does not just echo history—it demands a sacrifice.
Step into a sweeping historical fantasy where ancient Rome’s blood-soaked sands collide with the eternal resonance of the human soul. Book One of the Anton of Antioch Trilogy invites you to listen closely to the silence between the notes—because the song has only just begun.
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