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SUCCESSIO launches in London - the official report!

Friends, Roma Novans and colleagues lent me their hours. The bubbly flowed in the glorious library at the University Women’s Club in Mayfair as we gathered to celebrate the publication of the third thriller in the Roma Nova series.

I’d asked long term Roma Nova fan Sue Cook to sit in conversation with me and […]

SUCCESSIO PUBLICATION DAY!

Apologies for the capital letters – I’m not shouting at anybody, I’m shouting out loud to the world.

Today is the end of a long process. My third novel in the Roma Nova thriller series is published. Is it as exciting as publishing the first?

Yes and no.

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SUCCESSIO excerpt III

‘C’mon, Bruna, wake up!’

We’d been practising for fifteen minutes now and I wanted a break. My breath was rasping through my lungs in shorter and shorter gasps. Blood thrummed around my system as my superfit opponent exerted every gram of his formidable strength against me. I was more skilled and agile than him which […]

SUCCESSIO excerpt II

Fifteen minutes later, Livius stopped, held his hand up. We dropped to the ground as one. Between the trees, I could see the edge of the clearing housing the exercise headquarters. After a long five minutes, Livius sent Gorlius and Pelo forward to check out the approach. It was such a classic trick to stake […]

SUCCESSIO excerpt I

It was far too quiet. Only an occasional owl call, the odd flutter of feathers and pitter-patter of a small night creature. Sure, the training area was literally kilometres from anywhere, somewhere called Norfolk, but a hundred people couldn’t stay that quiet, not even – arguably – the best special forces in the world. Beside […]