Aelia traces forged debts to topple the officials who erased her father.
Aelia's uncle shackles her with a counterfeit debt and drags her to a Roman auction block. Five gladiators pool their coin to buy her freedom, but the broken eagle medal they press into her palm proves the empire scrubbed her father from record after he died shielding them. Now hunted by the same senators who forged the ledger, she follows the paper trail from the slave pens to the consul's archives, turning a single stolen life into the lever that could shatter the city's corruption.
Why it hooks you
- Gladiators become unexpected guardians
- Medal unlocks erased history
- One case ignites citywide reckoning
Intensity
High stakes drive a fast chase through marble halls and shadowed alleys.
