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Paradise is a nightmare. Holly Bloom works as an analyst for Flynn Industries. When she intercepts a confidential email stating that the luxury space station housing the wealthiest members of humanity has gone dark, she immediately volunteers to accompany the rescue team sent to fix the comm issue… but Saturnalia is nothing like the reclusive paradise she'd come to expect.

Roma, 46 d.C. Appena tornato nell'Urbe dopo un viaggio nelle Gallie, Publio Aurelio Stazio si trova coinvolto nei festeggiamenti dei Saturnalia, una sorta di rito carnevalesco dell'antichità durante il quale i ruoli sociali si invertono: gli schiavi si trasformano in padroni e i padroni in schiavi. Un'occasione dissacrante, liberatoria, soprattutto giorni di sfrenata allegria per tutti. O quasi tutti.

It is December 1681, and the words of Mr. Baggot, the tithingman, terrify young William. William is living a strange double life. By day he is a printer’s apprentice living in a white man’s house. By night, he is Weetasket of the Narraganset tribe who must risk Baggot’s wrath to search for his lost brother. Then comes the winter celebration of the Saturnalia - the ancient Roman holiday on which masters and slaves trade roles. Will William’s secrets be revealed? And what dark deeds of others will be brought to light on this fateful night?

This eagerly awaited fifth book in John Maddox Roberts's Edgar-nominated historical mystery series once again takes the reader back to the Rome of Julius Caesar and the Roman Senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger. Decius has won himself a reputation as both an investigator and, most unfortunately, a bit of a playboy. Having been banished by his family for sometimes embarrassing activities to a rather leisurely lifestyle on Rhodes, he is puzzled to be suddenly and unexpectedly summoned home to assist in an investigation.

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