Highly intelligent and serious, Allegra Mitela is a self-contained young woman, successful in her chosen career as a Praetorian Guard officer in the Roma Novan military. But she struggles to acknowledge her feelings for a man she's known all her life, let alone do anything about it. And she's sliding into trouble on every side...
Macrinus has grown up in the Mitela household, the son of the head steward, Junia. His mother was a comrade-in-arms of the legendary Aurelia Mitela during the Great Rebellion. She tells him Allegra is well out of his reach. Knowing he should pull free from his overwhelming attachment to Allegra, but desperately unhappy about leaving, Macrinus tries everything to keep his distance...
Will these unhappy non-lovers ever find a happy ending?
"Allegra, an Unusual Love Story" is also one of eight short stories collected together in one volume - ROMA NOVA EXTRA - which span two millennia a, from AD 370 when Roma Nova's founders met, to Allegra's time in 2029.
Roma Nova is an imaginary country but for Allegra and Macrinus, the struggles in their hearts are the same as anywhere else...
Genre: Science Fiction
Macrinus has grown up in the Mitela household, the son of the head steward, Junia. His mother was a comrade-in-arms of the legendary Aurelia Mitela during the Great Rebellion. She tells him Allegra is well out of his reach. Knowing he should pull free from his overwhelming attachment to Allegra, but desperately unhappy about leaving, Macrinus tries everything to keep his distance...
Will these unhappy non-lovers ever find a happy ending?
"Allegra, an Unusual Love Story" is also one of eight short stories collected together in one volume - ROMA NOVA EXTRA - which span two millennia a, from AD 370 when Roma Nova's founders met, to Allegra's time in 2029.
Roma Nova is an imaginary country but for Allegra and Macrinus, the struggles in their hearts are the same as anywhere else...
Genre: Science Fiction
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