This unholy alliance determined to seize the Shards in the possession of Juba and Selene then uncover the location of the hidden Ark and seize its power to finally acquire ultimate power! The demons King Juba unwittingly having released years before conspiring with Augustus Caesar’s heir, Tiberius, to obtain the Shards of Heaven. The Ark of the Covenant hidden away in the mighty city of Petra, watched over by the smoldering bones of long dead people and by the ever vigilant guard of Titus Pullo, Lucius Vorenus, and the orphan Miriam, whom they have reared as their own.īut while Juba and Cleopatra Selene bask in tranquility evil is still at work. Augustus Caesar’s ever vigilant eyes focused on other areas of his vast empire. King Juba of Mauretania and Cleopatra Selene rule peacefully far from the dangerous machinations of Rome touching them. Having been an avid reader since book one, I had high expectations for this novel and can truly admit this met them all, delivering exactly the mixture of action, adventure, history, and mystery that I was hoping for as the story comes to a close. Michael Livingston’s The Shards of Heaven: a clever, entertaining historical fantasy twist on ancient Rome. The Realms of God is the third, and concluding, installment in Dr. He is the general editor of the Liverpool Historical Casebooks Series, for which he has edited casebooks on the Battle of Brunanburh (Exeter, 2011), the Welsh rebel hero Owain Glyndwr (co-edited with John Bollard Liverpool, 2013), and, coming soon, the Battle of Crécy (co-edited with Kelly DeVries 2015). He has investigated European maps of America that pre-date Columbus, found unrecorded Anasazi ruins and artifacts, and written about the handwriting of fourteenth-century scribes. Tolkien, and digital and practical pedagogies (though never all of them at once!).
In his academic life, he has published more than a dozen articles on subjects as varied as early Christianity, BEOWULF, Chaucer, James Joyce, J.R.R.
He has also published in a variety of other genres and venues, from a historical retelling of BEOWULF to a brief story about quantum physics in the world-renowned journal of science, NATURE.
In his author life, he is a winner of the prestigious international Writers of the Future Contest (in 2005), and his novel SHARDS OF HEAVEN, the first in a trilogy of historical fantasies, will be published by Tor Books in November 2015. He lives today in Charleston, South Carolina, where he teaches at The Citadel.
A native of Colorado, Michael Livingston holds degrees in History, Medieval Studies, and English.
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