Could You Survive Ancient Rome?

Rome, around AD 110. You are twenty-six, freeborn and nobody.

You arrive from a provincial town with money sewn inside your belt, no family in the city and an accent that betrays you in a single sentence.

You are not a Roman citizen. Most people in the empire are not, but in Rome it may determine whether the law protects you, ignores you or destroys you.

Fifty times in this book, somebody asks you what you do next.

A stranger grabs your arm in the Forum and accuses you of theft. Your room catches fire six floors above the street. The grain ships are late, and a hungry crowd is gathering. A friendly man buys you a drink and asks what your patron thinks of the emperor.

Every situation gives you four possible choices, then shows you exactly where each one leads.

You are not an emperor, senator or general. You are an ordinary person trying to find work, protection and a place inside the most powerful city on Earth.

The question is not whether Rome survives.

The question is whether you do.

Fifty decisions. One city. What would you become in Ancient Rome?

Could You Survive Ancient Rome? is the first book from Second Person Press.