About the book: 2014 / Gaius Julius Caesar is dead. Orphaned Rome goes on a rampage, demanding the blood of murderers. And blood will be shed - on the streets of the Eternal City, in the quiet of estates and on the battlefields, where the Roman legions, who until recently served the Senate and the People together, will meet in a merciless battle. Who will take the power that has fallen from the hands of the murdered deity? Who will history call the triumphant, and who will receive only death and oblivion as a reward? In a series of powerful consuls, senators, and military leaders, it is difficult to notice the youngest of the contenders for power - a young man named Octavian. The one whom Caesar himself called his son. The one who is destined to bury the Republic and become the first Emperor of Rome.