<p><strong><em>'Mothers who have come before. Daughters who have died in blood. Sons lost to the dark. Hear me'</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>'Ancient Rome provides rich plunder for fantasy writers...Godstorm is a grand addition to the genre'</strong> Daily Mail</p><p><strong>'This startling alternative history takes us to a newly-imagined world... The result is a vivid, ferocious adventure'</strong> Kim Stanley-Robinson</p><p><strong>'A highly original, vividly-imagined fantasy Roman Empire where oil is power'</strong> Ruth Downie</p><p><strong>LOVE READING SCIFI/FANTASY BOOK OF THE MONTH</strong></p><p><strong>A Female Gladiator's Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to End Empires</strong></p><p>In an oil-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, Arrow - a gladiatrix turned governess - must rescue Livy, the child she never meant to love, a girl who could tear down the world.</p><p>When Livy is abducted during a devastating Godstorm, Arrow must unleash years of the gladiator training she'd sworn to forget in order to save her. Defying her owner, a heartless Consul, Arrow turns to her ex-lover and the illegal druid underworld in a desperate attempt to rescue the girl she has tried not to think of as her own.</p><p>Her search will take her across Londinium, a city of petrol-powered chariots, to the pagan Old Town, and eventually the edge of the known world: the Amazon, where destiny and destruction intertwine.</p><p>Facing battle and betrayal Arrow must choose: reclaim her past as a killer—or risk everything for the child who might call her 'mother.'</p><p><strong>She is the Sword.</strong></p>