{"product_id":"nero-9781639366545","title":"Nero","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom this \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author, the first novel in a new trilogy that finds Empress Agrippina and her young son, Nero, fending off ambitious rivals while shaping their own destiny--if Nero is to become the most feared and notorious emperor of them all.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story begins with a hand curled around another man's throat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is Roman justice: Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor--a friend he once trusted with the city--then the man's whole family and all of his friends. It is as if he never existed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Into this fevered forum, a child is born. His mother is Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. But their imperial blood is neither balm nor protection. Rather, it is a liability. Blood is easily spilled or poisoned. So swiftly corrupted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the aging, paranoid Tiberius becomes blind to the ignoble end awaiting him, Agrippina sees the future. Her once-exiled brother Caligula is next in succession, which brings her another step closer to the heart of the empire--to power, ambition, and danger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Every day she will face soldiers, senators, rivals, silver-tongued pretenders, each vying for position. One mistake risks exile, incarceration, execution. Or, worst of all, perhaps the loss of her infant son. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Because Agrippina knows that, even in your darkest moments, opportunity rises. Her son is everything. She can make this boy, shape him into Rome itself--the man before whom all must kneel. But first, Agrippina and Nero must survive . . .\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50586174619922,"sku":"9781639366545","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_74e3d213-1f8e-4105-8679-e59155a57ea8.jpg?v=1732042381","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nero-9781639366545","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}