Saturnalia

Young senator Decius Lucilius Metellus the Younger is summoned to Rome from far away by his many and noble relatives. He is summoned in grim, uncertain times—the dying of the Republic, when democracy began to collapse under the pressure of rival power-seeking usurpers. He is tasked with investigating the mysterious death of his relative, the consul Metellus Celer. According to common opinion, Celer committed suicide by taking a portion of poison. But shortly before his death, Celer had received an assignment to Gaul— for which great figures like Caesar and Pompey also had ambitions. Only death could stop such a appointment— and, as a rule, death at someone else’s hands—Decius is convinced of this…