Julius Caesar is dead. Rome is plunged into grief. The killers who called themselves the Liberators of Rome were pardoned, but they still feared for their fate. Mark Antony and Guy Octavian, Caesar’s allies, decided to punish the traitors—especially Mark Brutus. The novel "The Blood of the Gods" tells about the events of those years, but Igghulden’s story "The Fig Tree" is devoted to Octavian’s last days—when he became Caesar Augustus and established imperial power in Rome.