To Abandon Rome, AD 593
Nov 2017 · Tribonian Trilogy Book 2 · Feather Books
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AD 593. Amid the crumbling grandeur of Christian Rome a good man opposes both Archdeacon and Pope. He stands against them as a bulwark for the common people.
Titus, banished by the new Lombard King, finds himself reduced to baking bricks in Rome. Political machinations are afoot and the factions have contrary schemes for him. One faction lifts him from the brick factory to a minor office. Neither faction is ready for what a Roman of the old cloth would do.
While this historical novel is true to the times, conflicts and characters, it is breath-catchingly dramatic:
+ Watch Titus as he delivers a live-birth from a whore who has died in childbirth.
+ Watch his rage when, to demonstrate the torments of Hell, a monk casts a puppy onto burning embers.
+ Watch when he burns the Archdeacon's Tribunal of the Holy Life and arrests him.
+ And hold your breath when he faces, in single combat, naked, the man who raped his wife. Watching it, watching in dread, watching in disguise as a man, is Adria, strong Adria, the woman who loves him.
In the late 6th Century, a Consul with Plenary Powers wore the mantle for a bit. A true Roman. He stood up. But then he faced Papal ire and the threat of the heretic's stake.
Buy To Abandon Rome to get swept up in the turmoil of Titus's public life, set against the tenderness of his private life. Get it today.
Titus, banished by the new Lombard King, finds himself reduced to baking bricks in Rome. Political machinations are afoot and the factions have contrary schemes for him. One faction lifts him from the brick factory to a minor office. Neither faction is ready for what a Roman of the old cloth would do.
While this historical novel is true to the times, conflicts and characters, it is breath-catchingly dramatic:
+ Watch Titus as he delivers a live-birth from a whore who has died in childbirth.
+ Watch his rage when, to demonstrate the torments of Hell, a monk casts a puppy onto burning embers.
+ Watch when he burns the Archdeacon's Tribunal of the Holy Life and arrests him.
+ And hold your breath when he faces, in single combat, naked, the man who raped his wife. Watching it, watching in dread, watching in disguise as a man, is Adria, strong Adria, the woman who loves him.
In the late 6th Century, a Consul with Plenary Powers wore the mantle for a bit. A true Roman. He stood up. But then he faced Papal ire and the threat of the heretic's stake.
Buy To Abandon Rome to get swept up in the turmoil of Titus's public life, set against the tenderness of his private life. Get it today.
About the author
Although author Vann Turner was born in West Palm Beach, FL, he cannot call that home. He attended thirteen different schools, in thirteen different locales, before he graduated from Pensacola High School in 1966. His parents thought the best graduation present would be a suitcase. Vann took the hint and left. By tending bar and cooking he earned his BA in English (Latin minor).
He went on to teach high school one year, became an avid backpacker, did a stint in the Army, was domestic chef to British nobility in Greenwich, CT, became an amateur bodybuilder, used his medic training to work in hospitals, then went on to transcribe medical dictation using WordPerfect 5.1. During this time he wrote three gay short stories. The first magazines he sent them to bought them. Maybe he could tell a story and had something to say besides.
He then began working on his first novel, completing it in 1992. That novel came close to acceptance by a major publisher, but in the end it was no cigar. He told himself he needed to write full time, but he needed an income so he could quit his job and write. If he had something to sell on that new fangled thing, the World Wide Web, that'd provide the income he needed.
So he learned coding. He wrote and sold medical transcription software, MedPen, on the internet. But that decision did not pan out as he had hoped. It sapped all his time and creativity and he wrote not a word of fiction until he sold the business in September, 2012.
The next day his long-time partner (and future husband when it became legal in 2014) asked him what he was going to do with his time. He said he was going to write. Bob nodded and asked him to dust off that 1992 novel. Vann responded that he had other stories to tell as well and he was going to write a novel set after the fall of Rome but before the solid onset of the Dark Ages, a time ripe with conflicts, Roman tradition versus Germanic custom, Christianity versus the old gods, the human heart struggling against itself and external constraints.
Vann has always been a shy person and now is something of a recluse in his mountain home with his dogs. (His husband passed in May of 2017.) He only recently (June, 2019) ventured into the strange world of Facebook and he is not on Twitter. You see, the mindless and anonymous blather there gives him the heebie-jeebies. But he loves interacting with people one on one. So if you'd like to send him an email, he will answer you. You'll find his email address in his novels and on his website:
www.vannturner.com
He went on to teach high school one year, became an avid backpacker, did a stint in the Army, was domestic chef to British nobility in Greenwich, CT, became an amateur bodybuilder, used his medic training to work in hospitals, then went on to transcribe medical dictation using WordPerfect 5.1. During this time he wrote three gay short stories. The first magazines he sent them to bought them. Maybe he could tell a story and had something to say besides.
He then began working on his first novel, completing it in 1992. That novel came close to acceptance by a major publisher, but in the end it was no cigar. He told himself he needed to write full time, but he needed an income so he could quit his job and write. If he had something to sell on that new fangled thing, the World Wide Web, that'd provide the income he needed.
So he learned coding. He wrote and sold medical transcription software, MedPen, on the internet. But that decision did not pan out as he had hoped. It sapped all his time and creativity and he wrote not a word of fiction until he sold the business in September, 2012.
The next day his long-time partner (and future husband when it became legal in 2014) asked him what he was going to do with his time. He said he was going to write. Bob nodded and asked him to dust off that 1992 novel. Vann responded that he had other stories to tell as well and he was going to write a novel set after the fall of Rome but before the solid onset of the Dark Ages, a time ripe with conflicts, Roman tradition versus Germanic custom, Christianity versus the old gods, the human heart struggling against itself and external constraints.
Vann has always been a shy person and now is something of a recluse in his mountain home with his dogs. (His husband passed in May of 2017.) He only recently (June, 2019) ventured into the strange world of Facebook and he is not on Twitter. You see, the mindless and anonymous blather there gives him the heebie-jeebies. But he loves interacting with people one on one. So if you'd like to send him an email, he will answer you. You'll find his email address in his novels and on his website:
www.vannturner.com
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